decouple

Verb

Verb Forms: decoupled, decoupling, decouples

• To separate, disengage, or disconnect something.
• 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.

Examples

• He had to DECOUPLE from his initial strategy when the board changed unexpectedly.
• radiation decoupled from matter
• to decouple a spent rocket stage

Synonyms

dissociate, uncouple, ;, dispair, unpair

Antonyms

associate, couple

Related Words

decoupling