MEANING
1. To separate something from a connection, identity, or association.
2. To experience a separation from normally connected awareness, memory, or sense of self.
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Words that belong together
- dissociate oneself from
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She dissociated herself from the group.
He dissociated the sound from its source.
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Word forms
- Base
- dissociate
- Past tense
- dissociated
- Past participle
- dissociated
- Present participle
- dissociating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dissociate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dissociating
- Present perfect
- have/has dissociated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dissociating
- Past
- dissociated
- Past continuous
- was/were dissociating
- Past perfect
- had dissociated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dissociating
- Future
- will dissociate
- Future continuous
- will be dissociating
- Future perfect
- will have dissociated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dissociating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: dissociate; dissociates; dissociated; dissociated; dissociating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: dissociates.
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