dissociate
verb (used with object)
to break the association of; separate.
dissociated
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past participleof dissociate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dissociate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dissociateverb (used with object)to break the association of; separate.
Example Sentences
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When people are more dissociated, “they may describe feeling numb, being on ‘autopilot,’ ” Brand says.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
And Moss-Bachrach brings a menacing edge of dissociated weirdness to Sal, the character John Cazale played as a neighborhood space alien.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The police dissociated itself from the information and said an investigation was under way to identify those responsible.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
