disassociatev.
/ˌdɪsəˈsəʊʃɪeɪt/, /ˌdɪsəˈsəʊsɪeɪt/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt/, /ˌdɪsəˈsoʊsiˌeɪt/ 1. transitive. To free or detach from association; to dissociate, sever, separate. Also reflexive. Chiefly with from, with.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)]
to-twemec893
sunderOE
asunderOE
shedOE
dealOE
shill1049
skillc1175
to-twinc1175
twinc1230
disseverc1250
depart1297
slita1300
to-throwc1315
parta1325
drevec1325
devisec1330
dividec1374
sever1382
unknit?a1425
divorce1430
separea1450
separate?a1475
untine1496
to put apart1530
discussa1542
deceper1547
disseparate1550
apart1563
unjoint1565
shoal1571
divisionatea1586
single1587
dispart1590
descide1598
disassociate1598
distract1600
dissolve1605
discriminate1615
dissociate1623
discerpa1628
discind1640
dissunder1642
distinguish1648
severize1649
unstring1674
skaila1833
cleave1873
dirempt1885
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)] > free or detach from association
disassociate1598
disconnect1770
1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie xiii. 83 So said the Princesse Aurora that neuer woulde disassociate her knights [It. che giamai si volse appartare da i suoi Cauallieri].
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 664 As if our minde had not other houres enough to doe hir businesse, without disassociating hir selfe from the body [Fr. sans se desassocier du corps].
1658 P. Temple Mans Master-piece 6 Let us free our feet from this subtile laborinth, let us (for some time) disassociate our spirits from the body.
1813 G. Edwards Appropriate Meas. True Policy 11 States and Nations..may be associated and disassociated..that neither may injure the other.
1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. i. 5 They were at no time disassociated with useful labour.
1899 Southern Reporter 25 548/2 If the wife's status as a minor emancipated by marriage could be disassociated from her status as a married woman, [etc.].
1921 W. A. Bradley in tr. R. de Gourmont Decadence & Other Ess. p. x Gourmont, in order to disassociate the idea of love..sought to ‘situate’ man's sexual experience in the vast vital milieu of universal sexuality.
1973 P. K. Hitti Capital Cities of Arab Islam ii. 38 Muhammad's reaction was..to disassociate Islam from its two sister monotheistic religions.
2006 Esquire Mar. 78/2 Previously I..managed to disassociate myself from the facts.
2. intransitive. Chiefly with from. To break off from an association; to separate or distance oneself.
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1933 China Press (Shanghai) 12 Sept. 9/4 Once he gets in, it is practically impossible for him to disassociate from his feared chief and his honorable comrades.
1963 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 28 523 The need of each country to disassociate from that major power having the most direct cultural and economic influence on it.
1991 D. Coupland Generation X iii. xxix. 165 Peppering daily life with obscure references..as a subliminal means of showcasing both one's education and one's wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture.
2012 Independent 18 Feb. (Mag.) 27/2 As a writer, you have to disassociate. If someone wanted to film another one of my books I'd say yes like a shot.
Derivatives
disaˈssociated adj.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separate or separated
sunderedc1230
ysondredc1380
discretea1398
divisec1420
dissevered1471
separate?a1475
separated1535
semoted1542
dissociate1548
dirempt1580
dissundered1580
severed1581
parted1595
dividual1598
twain1600
sejunct1602
disassociated1611
dissociated1611
dividenta1616
entire to itselfa1618
interstinct1623
disjected1647
segregant1647
severized1649
divided1658
separate1667
secrete1678
disaffiliated1839
dirempted1900
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desassocié, disassociated; separated, parted from the companie of.
1843 Boston Courier 9 Nov. 1/7 Such are the results of the present system of isolated and disassociated property.
1881 P. Brooks Candle of Lord 183 Disassociated and apparently contradictory ideas.
1990 Bellcore Insight Winter 3/1 Seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a disassociated collection of parts.
2009 K. J. Schnorbus Earnest Searcher i. 9 He was peering back toward the first moment of his existence...It was diffuse and vague, a confused jumble of disassociated sensations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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