disassociate

1. To separate (oneself); to dissolve one's association with a person, group, or situation.

   After the scandal, the political party disassociated itself from the questionable candidate.

   If the whole membership disassociates, the result will be disestablishment.

2. (transitive)To separate into smaller discrete units, as with analysis.

   The problem is easier to understand if you disassociate the variables.

3. (intransitive)To separate; to disunite; to disintegrate; to dissolve.

   The fibers of this nonwoven textile disassociated when I tried to wash it.

1. You must disassociate yourself from them.

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2. Try to disassociate all the confounding variables.

   ruПопытайся абстрагироваться от всех осложнений с переменными величинами.

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3. Sexual abuse victims often disassociate from their trauma.

   ruЖертвы сексуального насилия часто дистанцируются от своей травмы.

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4. Anders disassociated himself from an increasingly corrupt board of directors.

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5. Vera had to disassociate herself from her former best friends, who got into drugs.

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