dissociate

1. 1.

   part; cease or break association with

   “She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president”

   Synonymsdisassociatedivorcedisunitedisjoint

   Broaderseparate
2. 2.

   regard as unconnected

   “you must dissociate these two events!”

   “decouple our foreign policy from ideology”

   Synonymsdecouple

   Antonymsassociate

   Broaderdistinguish
3. 3.

   to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms

   “acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions”

   Broaderdecompose

   chemistry

Other forms of dissociate

past tense

dissociated·

present participle

dissociating·

third person

dissociates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dissociate

What does dissociate mean?

dissociate means "part; cease or break association with". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dissociate?

dissociate has 4 syllables: dis-so-ci-ate. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /dɪˈsoʊsieɪt/.

What is another word for dissociate?

Close synonyms include disassociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint, decouple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of dissociate?

The recorded antonyms are associate.

Is dissociate a common word?

dissociate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.