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dissociate

/dɪˈsəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/US/dɪˈsoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/

dissociate verb: to cease associating; To part.

Verb

dissociate (third-person singular simple present dissociates, present participle dissociating, simple past and past participle dissociated)

  1. (intransitive) To cease associating; To part.
    • After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other.
    Antonyms:
    associate
    1. (intransitive) To undergo dissociation.
      • Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating.
    2. (intransitive) To undergo dissociation.
  2. (transitive) To cease associating with; to make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
    • A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority.
    Antonyms:
    associate
    1. (transitive) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.
      • We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating

dissociate meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog

dissociate in Tamil

கலை, தொடர்பறு, தொடர்பை அறு, பிரி, பிரிந்து போ

dissociate in Malayalam

detach, separate, disconnect
തമ്മിൽപിരിക്കുക, വേർപെടുത്തുക, വിനിയോഗിക്കുക, വേറാക്കുക, വിയോജിപ്പിക്കുക, ബന്ധം വിടർത്തുക

dissociate in Kannada

ಬೇರ‍್ಪಡು, ಒಡಗೂಡದಿರು, ಜೊತೆಬಿಡು, ಬೇರ್ಪಡು, ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸು, ಅಗಲಿಸು

dissociate in Tagalog

to cease associating with
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dissociate in Indonesian
memisahkan diri, mendisosiasikan

Examples of dissociate in a sentence

  • Disinvolve yourself, if you can come to it, disinvolve, dissociate, hold a watching brief.
  • The fixed larvae were dissociated into fine pieces by pippetting in 50% acetic acid.
  • Using electroporation of freshly dissociated cells to introduce CMV-GFP also shows differential transfectability in different cell types.

All 17 example sentences with dissociate

Antonyms of dissociate

Forms of dissociate

third-person singular presentdissociates
present participledissociating
past participledissociated
pastdissociated

Past tense of dissociate: dissociated

Origin of dissociate

From Latin dissociō + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dis- (“apart”) + sociō (“join”), from socius (“related, leagued”).

Words formed from dissociate

Questions about dissociate

What does dissociate mean?
Dissociate means to cease associating; To part.
What is dissociate in Tamil?
Dissociate in Tamil is கலை, தொடர்பறு, தொடர்பை அறு. See Dissociate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dissociate?
Dissociate is a verb.
How do you pronounce dissociate?
Dissociate is pronounced /dɪˈsəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dissociate?
The past tense of dissociate is dissociated.

Words near dissociate in the dictionary

  1. dissocialize
  2. dissocialized
  3. dissocializes
  4. dissocializing
  5. dissocially
  6. dissociate
  7. dissociated
  8. dissociates
  9. dissociating
  10. dissociation
  11. dissociation energies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dissociate (page history and authors); dissociate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissociate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dissociate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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