DISCONNECTING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

disconnecting

verb

present participle of disconnect

as in dividing

to set or force apart disconnected the two parts of the light fixture

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Recent Examples of disconnecting Try disconnecting your router on a weekend afternoon and play board games with your family. — Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 29 July 2026 Finally, truly respecting time off, with no guilt for employees disconnecting, demonstrates a supportive culture. — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Previously, utilities were barred from disconnecting customers over nonpayment when temperatures above 100 degrees were forecasted. — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 28 July 2026 Tesla data showed Burke’s iPhone disconnecting from the vehicle on July 29, 2025, shortly before a neighbor’s camera recorded him walking back toward his home. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026 Because vacation is about decompressing and disconnecting from daily life—not about worrying what’s going on at home. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026 Get in the habit of disconnecting devices when you’re done using them. — Karla Radka, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2026 State governments Many states prevent utilities from disconnecting residential customers’ electricity, even if the bills aren’t paid. — Alexandra Klass, The Conversation, 17 June 2026 The disconnecting decision must be made by Centennial City Council and was approved at a recent meeting. — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 12 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disconnecting

Verb

The bill would create a federal rulebook for issuing, trading and holding digital assets, dividing oversight between the SEC and CFTC, Bambysheva writes.

— Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Mathon downsized that proposal, and in late June asked to rezone just 98 acres for multifamily development, while dividing the rest of the acreage — much of it with wetlands — between traditional housing and industrial park zones.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of dividing

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The rulings wiped out the dreams of thousands of Italian descendants who had been hoping to achieve citizenship, derailing life plans and splitting families apart.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
This will be a preview of what sort of Republicans are winning in this seats drawn away from Democrats; Tennessee Republicans will test that on their new map two days later, after splitting up the city of Memphis.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of splitting

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While severing thread-ectronics will destroy them, eutectogels are stable, soft enough to touch or connect to the human body, and allow transistor repair through the simple application of low heat.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026
Moving Instagram to a bigger screen, then, is usually a route not to normalizing it in that new space but instead to severing ties with it altogether.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026