Verb dissociate has 3 senses
  1. disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint - part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
    --1 is one way to separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
    Derived forms: noun dissociation2, noun dissociation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. decouple, dissociate - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
    --2 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
    Antonyms: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect
    Derived forms: noun dissociation2, noun dissociation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. dissociate - to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
    --3 is one way to
    decompose, break up, break down
    Derived form: noun dissociation3
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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