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 blow air through loose material such as grain so the heavier and lighter parts separate.
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
- 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.
separate — full definition
- verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.
- adj Not connected to or joined with something else; distinct.
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