dissociate
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- v part; cease or break association with
- v regard as unconnected
you must dissociate these two events! - v to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions
- Japanese like himself ought to fight for their ideas, break with their Government, dissociate themselves from a wrong and losing cause.
- McCain moved to dissociate himself from Hagee after a 1999 sermon was publicized in which Hagee claimed that God intended the Holocaust, and had prophesied it in the Book of .
- In many cases the therapists conclude, and eventually convince the patients through suggestion, that the repressed memories of childhood abuse have caused them to "dissociate.