Sample sentences for DISSOCIATE

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Definition

end association with

The expression: "dissociate with" means to publicly state one is not associated with someone or something

He dissociated himself from the organization.

dissociated = ended association

You shouldn't dissociate the woman from her votes.
Acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions.
Dissociative identity disorder is extremely rare, but yes, it's real.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical

(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)

For a moment, I feel strangely dissociated from my body—I can see myself propped on the steering wheel, my body a broken wreck.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
How, then, were they dissociated?
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
And I do not dissociate myself from them.
Winston Churchill -- Their Finest Hour
He lives dissociated from mechanical time.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
And during the few minutes of passion that followed I was able to dissociate myself from the present.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Some PTSD victims go into a dissociative state if the stressor is severe enough, and if it's repeated.
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client

I tried to dissociate the taste of the tap water from the sight of the brains and the general odor of preservatives and disinfectants.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
When was sciolism ever dissociated from laxity?
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
We dissociate the mind from the lower levels, send it back to the womb, and let it pretend it's being born to a new life all over again.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
But the rope dragged me, wobbling and balancing, so rapidly I couldn't hope to dissociate myself from it halfway.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
Thought of Stewart dissociated itself from thought of the other cowboys.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
This may not work for everyone; dissociating from misery may be wise.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Everybody's better than I am," Ender said, trying to dissociate himself from her contempt for the boys who would, after all, be his near bunkmates.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
Hema's thoughts became dissociated, as if they were no longer hers but instead were elegant copperplate scrolling before her in a dream.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
His mother came near, her face strangely sorrowful and brooding, incongruous somehow, dissociated completely from her task of carrying a platter of soup.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
She had concluded he would never wholly dissociate himself from this West; and as he would visit it now and then, she had already begun forming plans of her own.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon

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