The word 'dissociate' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word to mean 'to disconnect or separate in a physical and/or psychological sense'. For example, "The survivor had to dissociate from the traumatic memories of the accident in order to cope."
And the French are hostile to Turkey's entry into the EU, a subject that has been hard to dissociate from the constitution.
They should contemplate boycotting those who do not dissociate themselves from what the motion calls "Israeli apartheid policies" towards Palestinians.Paul Mackney, the union's boss, argued that there was little support for the motion among branch members and that a boycott should not be built "on conference rhetoric".
President Yeltsin's staff and the Russian foreign ministry hurried to dissociate themselves from his remarks.
But she has managed to dissociate herself from the failure of the coalition and present herself as a victim of the infighting, rather than an active participant.
THE efforts of Vice-President Al Gore to dissociate himself from various kinds of vice leapt forwards on November 24th.
Based on the success of this model, the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have launched similar schemes.We will become the first country in the world to dissociate health care from affluenceIndia's formal economy employs over 28.7m people.
Finally, they were taught to dissociate it from that colour and learn that a different colour was the giveaway.The lizards were able to manage all three tasks with ease matching the performance of tits in similar tests.
Although Mr Kabbah has tried to dissociate his own army from the Kamajor militia, the hunters are still seen as a government-backed force.
The owner took care to dissociate himself from such prejudice: "Southern whites simply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority.
The Kerry campaign immediately scrambled to dissociate itself from Mr Dean and Democrats across the country offered thanks to God that they had not chosen him as their presidential candidate.Even if they can avoid Dean-style gaffes, the Spanish debacle poses two serious problems for the Democrats.
"François Hollande knew exactly what everybody knew," declared the co-founder of Mediapart, Edwy Plenel, who has known Mr Hollande for many years, on April 3rd.Although Mr Hollande is doing his best to dissociate himself from his former minister, it is nonetheless his own presidency which is now being put to the test.
