dissociate
verb (used with object)
to break the association of; separate.
have dissociated
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present perfectof dissociate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Through an attorney, they have dissociated themselves from the occupiers.
From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2016
In response, Power said “I have dissociated myself from those comments many times,” adding: “I gave a long rambling and very remarkably incoherent response to a hypothetical question I should never have answered.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2013
Most of the team Perot assembled last spring have dissociated themselves from the candidate.
From Time Magazine Archive
She said this defiantly, ostentatiously throwing in her lot with the dubious characters from whom Max would fain have dissociated her.
From The Wharf by the Docks A Novel by Florence Warden
Nor could Sir David Barbour have dissociated himself from these conclusions without destroying the rest of his argument.
From The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers
