[verb] part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" Synonyms:disassociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
[verb] regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" Synonyms:decouple
[verb] to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"