Dissociate - English meaning

verb

Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.

Usage examples:

An urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants

verb

To cause a person or people to stop supporting someone or to stop feeling welcome

Usage examples:

All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its old readers., the alienation of young adults …

verb

To cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you

Usage examples:

All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.

verb

Disengage (something or part of something) and remove it.

Usage examples:

He detached the front lamp from its bracket

verb

To separate or remove something from something else that it is connected to

Usage examples:

Detach the lower half of the form and return it to the above address.

verb

To separate or remove something from something else that it is joined to

Usage examples:

Detach sth from sth detach the reply slip from this letter and return it to the above address.

verb

Break the connection of or between.

Usage examples:

If the axle unit is partially disconnected from the body, the car should not be driven

noun

An instance of disconnecting or being disconnected.

Usage examples:

A disconnect message

verb

To break a connection that carries a substance or electricity, or to break such a connection used by someone or something

Usage examples:

He disconnected a gas line., carefully tip the grill on its back and disconnect the burner from the…

verb

Recognize or treat (someone or something) as different.

Usage examples:

The child is perfectly capable of distinguishing reality from fantasy

verb

To recognize or understand the difference between two things, or to provide a quality that makes someone or something different or special

Usage examples:

[ i always + adv/prep ] it’s important to distinguish between scientific fact and fiction., [ t ] s…

verb

To notice or understand the difference between two things, or to make one person or thing seem different from another

Usage examples:

Distinguish between he's colour-blind and can't distinguish (the difference) between red and green …

noun

The legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.

Usage examples:

Her divorce from her first husband

verb

Legally dissolve one's marriage with (someone).

Usage examples:

She divorced him in 1965

noun

A divorced person.

verb

Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.

Usage examples:

A country which is isolated from the rest of the world

noun

A person or thing that has been or become isolated.

Usage examples:

Social isolates often become careless of their own welfare

verb

Place or set apart

verb

Set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.

Usage examples:

Apprehensions about groups segregated from the rest of society

noun

An allele that has undergone segregation.

adjective

Forming or viewed as a unit apart or by itself.

Usage examples:

This raises two separate issues

verb

Cause to move or be apart.

Usage examples:

Both owners were trying to separate the dogs

plural noun

Individual items of clothing, such as skirts, jackets, or trousers, suitable for wearing in different combinations.

Usage examples:

Day wear consists of angular shaped separates that include wide-neck jumpers and half-mast trousers.

verb

Divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly.

Usage examples:

The head was severed from the body

verb

Set or keep apart