decouple

Meanings

Verb

• disconnect or separate
• regard as unconnected
  • "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
• eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
• reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
• To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
• To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.

Synonyms

;, dispair, dissociate, uncouple, unpair

Antonyms

associate, couple

Related Words

decoupling