Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Dissociate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
part; cease or break association with
"She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
regard as unconnected
"you must dissociate these two events!"
"decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
"acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"
To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.