MEANING
To separate things that were connected or made dependent on one another.
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Words that belong together
- decouple growth from emissions
- decouple two systems
- decouple from
On the page
The design decouples the alarm from the building’s main power supply.
The policy aims to decouple economic growth from resource consumption.
They decoupled the two processes so that a delay in one would not stop the other.
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Word forms
- Base
- decouple
- Past tense
- decoupled
- Past participle
- decoupled
- Present participle
- decoupling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- decouple
- Present continuous
- am/is/are decoupling
- Present perfect
- have/has decoupled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been decoupling
- Past
- decoupled
- Past continuous
- was/were decoupling
- Past perfect
- had decoupled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been decoupling
- Future
- will decouple
- Future continuous
- will be decoupling
- Future perfect
- will have decoupled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been decoupling
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Forms: decouple; decouples; decoupled; decoupled; decoupling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: decouples.
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