disassociate• When one of the fattesthailed him when he was out shopping he decided he must disassociate himself from that crowd.• But Coun Jackson said he, also, disassociated himself with her remarks.• The need to disassociate oneself from it then follows.• However, they can still disassociate themselves from the apology.• Dealers have felt a need to deprecate their own firms' values, to disassociate themselves from them.• Hope and Digby Wyatt immediately disassociated themselves from Tite's comments.• In this situation, abject apologies in some respects remain complicit with the patronizingattitudes from which they attempt to disassociate themselves.• In this agent-dominated world, brands will be quickly disassociated with visualtrademarks, since people will rarely see them.