dissociate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
part; cease or break association with
She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president
Types & categories
- part hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissociation derivation
- disunion derivation
- dissociation derivation
- disassociation derivation
Sense 2 verb
regard as unconnected
you must dissociate these two events!
Types & categories
- differentiate hypernym
Related & opposite
- link antonym
- dissociation derivation
- dissociation derivation
- dissociative derivation
Sense 3 verb
to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions
Types & categories
- decompose hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissociation derivation
- chemistry domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissociation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disunion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissociation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | disassociation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | link |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissociation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissociation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissociative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | differentiate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissociation |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | chemistry |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | decompose |