What is the meaning of dissociate?

Part; cease or break association with.
- usage: "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
- synonyms: disassociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
Regard as unconnected.
- usage: "you must dissociate these two events"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
- synonyms: decouple
To undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms.
- usage: "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

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