DECOUPLE

decouple

(verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

decouple

(verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

decouple, dissociate

(verb) regard as unconnected; “you must dissociate these two events!”; “decouple our foreign policy from ideology”

uncouple, decouple

(verb) disconnect or separate; “uncouple the hounds”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

decouple (third-person singular simple present decouples, present participle decoupling, simple past and past participle decoupled)

(ambitransitive) To unlink; to take or come apart.

Source: Wiktionary