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Uncouple

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To disconnect: uncouple railroad cars.

v. To set loose or release from a couple.

verb-intransitive. To come or break loose.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To disconnect or detach one thing from another.

v. To come loose.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To loose, as dogs, from their couples; also, to set loose; to disconnect; to disjoin.

verb-intransitive. To roam at liberty.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In organ-playing, to separate or disjoin by throwing off the coupler between two keyboards which have been mechanically joined in action. See organ, 6.

To loose, as dogs from their couples, or railway-cars from their couplings; set loose; disjoin.

To break loose; exert influence unrestrained.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. disconnect or separate

Word Usage

"We would fix the tax code to uncouple health insurance from employment and let people purchase their own mix of services and coverage."

Verb Form

uncoupled uncouples uncoupling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

disconnect

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disconnect disjoin

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

couple decouple quintuple supple