FREE-ASSOCIATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they free-associate ... he / she / it free-associates

Past simple: free-associated

Past participle: free-associated

-ing form: free-associating

Meaning:

Associate freely

Example:

Let's associate freely to bring up old memories

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "free-associate" is one way to...):

associate; colligate; connect; link; link up; relate; tie in (make a logical or causal connection)

Domain category:

psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something