free-associate

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free-associate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  free-associate \free-associate\ v. i. (psychoanalysis)
     to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an
     unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea
     to prompt recollection of the next one. It is a process used
     in psychotherapy.
  
     Syn: associate freely.
          [WordNet 1.5]

free-associate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  free-associate
      v 1: associate freely; "Let's associate freely to bring up old
           memories"