dissociate

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

disassociate disjoint disunite divorce decouple

associate colligate link relate connect tie in link up