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
By other means we have dissociated ourselves from Duson and all connection with him.
From The Yellow Crayon by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
These two objects of the national sentiment of love, the one material, the other immaterial, are not, however, to be dissociated in the social mind, as I have dissociated them on paper.
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
