afscheiden — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dissociate verb In psychology, to become mentally detached from your thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings, so that experience feels unreal or distant. It often happens under stress or trauma.
- excrete verb To pass waste material out of a cell, the body or a system.
- exude verb To slowly ooze or seep out, especially of liquid or moisture.
- isolate verb To separate someone or something from others.
- ooze verb To leak or flow out slowly, especially a thick or sticky substance.
- secession noun The act of formally withdrawing from a union, state or organization.
- secrete verb Of a gland, cell, or plant, to produce and release a substance.
- strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.
Senses
afscheiden is used for these senses in English:
- dissociate (transitive) To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
- excrete (biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
- exude (transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
- isolate (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- secession The act of seceding.
- strain (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
dissociate — full definition
- verb In psychology, to become mentally detached from your thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings, so that experience feels unreal or distant. It often happens under stress or trauma.
- verb To separate yourself from a person, group or idea, especially publicly, so as not to be associated with them.
- verb In chemistry, to split into smaller particles such as ions, atoms or simpler molecules, often reversibly.
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