To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance
If you dissociate yourself from something or someone, you say or show that you are not connected with them, usually in order to avoid trouble or blame. It is getting harder for the president to dissociate himself from the scandal
part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
-To separate all or part of one's consciousness from connection to the external environment; in DID the act of splitting one's mind into separate identities
If you dissociate one thing from another, you consider the two things as separate from each other, or you separate them. Almost the first lesson they learn is how to dissociate emotion from reason. = divorce + dissociation dis·so·cia·tion The war between the sexes should not result in their complete dissociation from one another
to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions
regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis