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separieren — 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.
  • separate verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.
  • winnow verb To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

Senses

separieren is used for these senses in English:

  • dissociate (transitive) To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
  • separate (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
  • separate (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
  • winnow (transitive, figuratively) To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.

dissociate — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. verb To separate yourself from a person, group or idea, especially publicly, so as not to be associated with them.
  3. verb In chemistry, to split into smaller particles such as ions, atoms or simpler molecules, often reversibly.

separate — full definition

  1. verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.
  2. adj Not connected to or joined with something else; distinct.

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