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dissociated

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dis·so·ci·ate  (d-ssh-t, -s-)
v. dis·so·ci·at·ed, dis·so·ci·at·ing, dis·so·ci·ates
v.tr.
1. To remove from association; separate: "Marx never dissociated man from his social environment" Sidney Hook.
2. Chemistry To cause to undergo dissociation.
v.intr.
1. To cease associating; part.
2. Biology To mutate or change morphologically, often reversibly.
3. Chemistry To undergo dissociation.
[Latin dissocire, dissocit- : dis-, dis- + socire, to unite (from socius, companion; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).]
dis·soci·ative adj.
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The latter was the eternal, living principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no longer an integral.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
By other means we have dissociated ourselves from Duson and all connection with him.
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I should not enter into these adventures, which naturally are not entirely dissociated from a certain amount of risk, for the purposes of financial gain.
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