uncouple
to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
to end (a romantic relationship or marriage): Their marriage was uncoupled by financial problems.
to become unfastened; let go: The glider uncoupled from the tow plane.
to end a romantic relationship or marriage: My sister and her boyfriend have uncoupled after ten years together.
(of a romantic relationship or marriage) to end.
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How to use uncouple in a sentence
It’s a question with an obvious answer, one that Saruhashi is bringing to light while working to uncouple prisons from profit.
He’s Taking on the For-Profit Prison Telecommunications Industry | Barbara Fletcher | July 26, 2021 | OzyThat means transmission and severe disease and death are partially uncoupled, biologically.
“We never created a supervirus.” Ralph Baric explains gain-of-function research. | Rowan Jacobsen | July 26, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewBy taking an intersectional approach to data collection and uncoupling various groups within the community we can see data in a more meaningful and productive way.
Addressing the Flaws in our Mental Healthcare System Could Save Young LGBTQ Lives | Amit Paley | July 23, 2021 | TimeNone of those acquisitions worked out, they noted, and the companies soon uncoupled.
For the entertainment industry, an HBO Max move is causing peak upset | Steven Zeitchik | December 9, 2020 | Washington PostOur hospitals and medical specialty organizations can help reduce overtesting by uncoupling physician pay and test ordering.
My cancer might be back—and I wonder if unnecessary radiation caused it in the first place | jakemeth | September 22, 2020 | Fortune
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have announced their intention to ‘consciously uncouple’—whatever that means.
As revealed in a break-up statement on her website Goop, she and Martin have decided to “consciously uncouple.”
There was no need for the firemen to uncouple a line of hose from the reel.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. CobbShe never relaxed her efforts to break the lovers' hold upon each other's arms, to unbind them, to uncouple them.
Germinie Lacerteux | Edmond and Jules de GoncourtHe sent his fireman back to the first car, with orders to uncouple the engine.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him | Paul Leicester FordBut the law of New York State says that married couples shall not uncouple amicably and intelligently.
We Can't Have Everything | Rupert HughesWhen they attempted to start that train, didn't they rush on and uncouple the cars?
British Dictionary definitions for uncouple
/ (ʌnˈkʌpəl) /
to disconnect or unfasten or become disconnected or unfastened
(tr) to set loose; release
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