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1. Disconnect or separate
   "decouple the hounds";
   - uncouple
    
2. Regard as unconnected
   "decouple our foreign policy from ideology";
   - dissociate
    
3. (physics) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
    
4. (electronics) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

Derived forms: decoupled, decouples, decoupling

Type of: differentiate, disconnect, distinguish, do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, secern [rare], secernate, separate, severalise [Brit], severalize, tell, tell apart

Encyclopedia: Decouple, duplicate, discriminate