To separate or disentangle something from involvement or connection with something else.
From dis- (prefix meaning 'apart' or 'reverse') + involve (from Latin involvere, 'to wrap up'). The prefix dis- negates or reverses the action of involve, meaning to undo an involvement.
This word is practically extinct in modern English, but it reveals how language evolves: we used to need a specific word for 'unwrapping' yourself from a situation, but now we just say 'uninvolve' or 'extract yourself.' It's like a linguistic fossil showing how people once described disentanglement.
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