disassociate
/dɪsəˈsəʊʃɪeɪt
/verb
Another term for dissociate.Every once in a while, anchors and correspondents - as though disassociating from their own roles - paused to marvel at how the sniping story was deflecting public attention from the stretch drive of the 2002 campaign....
- In the last seven days we have received numerous telephone calls, letters and e-mails from representatives and members of the 41 organisations on the list, disassociating themselves with the PEGG initiative.
- Cllr Aird: ‘I'm disassociating myself from the proposal of my two colleagues.’
Derivatives
disassociation
/ /dɪsəsəʊsiˈeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...- The deaggregation observed may now be viewed as a systematic separation or disassociation of the component protomolecules from their aggregated state.
- For an unfortunate minority, several crucial elements of the work/family/partner equation are missing and the holes are filled with recreational obsession, causing a degree of disassociation from conventional behaviour.
- Such status also supports the photograph's definition as object, thus affirming its artistic value through a disassociation with traditional photographs, both fine art and commercial.