DISSOCIATE
\dɪsˈə͡ʊsɪˌe͡ɪt], \dɪsˈəʊsɪˌeɪt], \d_ɪ_s_ˈəʊ_s_ɪ__ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of DISSOCIATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
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regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
By Princeton University
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part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
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(chemistry) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
By Oddity Software
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To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To separate from a society or company: to disunite.
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DISSOCIATION. Also in chem. the decomposition of a compound substance into its primary elements by heat or by mechanical pressure. "Wherever heat-rays are intercepted they are transformed into some other form of vibratory energy, and the dissociation of compound vapors into their primary elements is one of the results of this change of form."-Edin. Rev.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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