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Definition: Disassociate |
DisassociateVerb1. Part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disassociate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Note: Disassociate \Dis`as*so"ci*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Disassociated; present participle verb or noun Disassociating.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DisassociateSynonyms: disjoint (v), dissociate (v), disunite (v), divorce (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Disassociate |
| English words defined with "disassociate": Disassociated, Disassociating. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Gambia | The journalists claimed that the newspaper was being used as a political organ of the APRC, and they maintained that they wanted to disassociate themselves from what they saw as a propaganda outfit to promote the political interest of one group at the expense of others. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disassociate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "Disassociate" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 89.29% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.71% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disassociate | 4 |
disassociate disorder | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disassociate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trennen (decollate, detach, differentiate, disconnect, dissociate, dissolve, distinguish, divide, divorce, drag apart, part, pull apart, remove, segregate, separate, separate out, sever, shut off, sift, slit, split up, take away, to decollate, to disassociate, to disconnect, to disjoin, to disrupt, to dissociate, to disunite, to part, to secede, to segregate, to separate, to sever, to sunder, undo, unpick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szétválaszt (differentiate, disconnect, disjoin, dispart, disrupt, dissociate, disunite, to disassociate, to disengage, to disrupt, to dissever, to dissociate, to divide, to divorce, to part, to partition, to pull asunder, to separate, to sort, to uncouple, uncouple, unstick), különválaszt (sequester, to disassociate, to grade, to sequester). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissociare (dissociate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isassociateday desassociar. (various references) разъединять (decouple, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, dissever, dissociate, divide, divorce, separate, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, unjoined, unjoining, unlink, unlock), разобщать (disconnect, disengage, disjoin, dissociate). (various references) desasociar. (various references) роз'"днувати (come apart, detach, disarticulate, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, disunite, sejoin, sever, unyoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disassociate": disassociated, disassociates. (additional references) | |
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"Disassociate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disassoc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disassociate" (pronounced di'susō"shēāt) |
| 3 | -ē ā t | dissociate, exfoliate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-i-o-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dissociates. | |
-2 letters: associated, associates, coassisted, dissociate. | |
-3 letters: associate, dacoities, diastases, seacoasts. | |
-4 letters: acidoses, acidosis, assisted, cestoids, cissoids, coassist, diastase, discases, disseats, dissects, sadistic, seacoast. | |
-5 letters: acedias, aecidia, ascesis, ascidia, ascites, casitas, cassias, cestoid, cissies, cissoid, coasted, codeias, coedits, cosiest, cossets, dacoits, daisies, dassies, deistic, desists, dicasts, diciest, discase, disseat, dissect, ectasis, iodates, iodises, sadists, scotias. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-i-o-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disassociated, disassociates. | |
+5 letters: declassifications, dictatorialnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 61 73 73 6F 63 69 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s a s s o c i a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0061 0073 0073 006F 0063 0069 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585678585816975678671 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | deutsch, Deutsche, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, alemán, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiesisch, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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