Definition of "disassociate" [dis•as•so•ci•ate]

• To remove from association; dissociate. (verb-transitive)

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• "During the next four hours, she learned that she could leave her body, go somewhere else, totally disassociate from the pain and horror."
• "Another option is the French term fantastique, which has a similarly wide application but which is, like "weird", hard to disassociate from the supernatural."
• "This is accomplished by sophisticated use of the brain's ability to disassociate, which is used to the extreme to create structured multiple personality-disordered minds."