decouple

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To unlink; to take apart or come apart.

   radiation decoupled from matter

2. verb To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.

Similar words

delink unbundle unlink disconnect detach sever displace unbind extricate disassociate

Often followed by

the from and these a them in their it

Word family

decoupled decouples decoupling