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Disassociate   /dˌɪsəsˈoʊʃieɪt/  /dˌɪsəsˈoʊsieɪt/   Listen
Disassociate

verb
(past & past part. disassociated; pres. part. disassociating)
1.
Part; cease or break association with.  Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce.






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"Disassociate" Quotes from Famous Books



... slowly returned to the common factors of existence, and in six weeks from the time of Traill's departure, was ready to smile at any moment to the humour of Janet's dry criticisms of life. But to move from her rooms, to disassociate herself from the past with every sorrow and every joy that it contained, was more than she could bring herself to do. Through all ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... become to us so exclusively the work of a professional class, that we find it difficult to imagine the intellectual and social conditions which fostered improvisation on a great scale, and trained the ear of great populations to the music of spoken poetry. It is almost impossible for us to disassociate literature from writing. There is still, however, a considerable volume of unwritten literature in the world in the form of stories, songs, proverbs, and pithy phrases; a literature handed down in large part from earlier times, but still receiving additions ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards

... in column 4 of the Pennsylvania tablet, even though certain expressions in it are somewhat obscure. The connection of the entire episode of Enkidu and the woman with Gilgamesh is very artificial; and it becomes much more intelligible if we disassociate it from its present entanglement in the Epic. In Gilgamesh's dream, portending the meeting with Enkidu, nothing is said of the woman who is the companion of the latter. The passage in which Enkidu is created by Aruru to oppose Gilgamesh [102] betrays evidence ...
— An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic • Anonymous

... saw nothing of what followed. She knew nothing until she awoke some two hours later to the haunting vision of the scene she had witnessed. And ever since it had clung to her—clung like an obsession, a mental parasite sapping her nerve, her very reason. Nor had she power to disassociate herself from it. ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum



Words linked to "Disassociate" :   disjoint, separate, break up, break, split up, split, part, disassociation



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