decouple

Verb

• reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

• eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

• regard as unconnected
  • you must dissociate these two events!
    
  • decouple our foreign policy from ideology
    

• disconnect or separate
  • uncouple the hounds
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dissociate , uncouple
• Antonyms: 
  associate , tie in , relate , link , colligate , link up , connect , couple , couple on , couple up