sich distanzieren — meaning in English
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English meaning
- disown verb To refuse to acknowledge someone, especially a family member, as belonging to you anymore.
- 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.
- repudiate verb To reject a claim, idea or association firmly and publicly, and to state that you want nothing to do with it.
Senses
sich distanzieren is used for these senses in English:
- disown (transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
- dissociate (intransitive) To part; to stop associating.
- repudiate (transitive) To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
disown — full definition
- verb To refuse to acknowledge someone, especially a family member, as belonging to you anymore.
- verb To deny any connection with or responsibility for something.
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.