dissociate
verb (used with object)
to break the association of; separate.
had dissociated
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past perfectof dissociate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Alec had dissociated himself from all this absurd fuss about a chance-met English youth with a French name, but he sat not far away, in the shade of the auracaria, behind the Paris Daily Mail.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
You see I had dissociated all this from my private life.
From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole
From the day of her marriage she had dissociated herself from the cause, for the furtherance of which her husband's father had given up home and country.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
He had dissociated himself from Earl Simon, but he carried into his father's camp something of Simon's breadth of vision and force of will.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
It was noticed with satisfaction in the English Parliament that the nation had dissociated itself from the mean and disgraceful policy of the Government.
From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam
