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detach

[ dih-tach ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite.
  2. Military. to send away (a regiment, ship, etc.) on a special mission.


detach

/ dɪˈtætʃ /

verb

  1. to disengage and separate or remove, as by pulling; unfasten; disconnect
  2. military to separate (a small unit) from a larger, esp for a special assignment


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Derived Forms

  • deˌtachaˈbility, noun
  • deˈtacher, noun
  • deˈtachable, adjective

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Other Words From

  • de·tacha·ble adjective
  • de·tacha·bili·ty noun
  • de·tacha·bly adverb
  • de·tacher noun
  • nonde·tacha·bili·ty noun
  • nonde·tacha·ble adjective
  • prede·tach verb (used with object)
  • self-de·taching adjective
  • unde·tacha·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of detach1

1470–80; < Middle French détacher, Old French destachier; dis- 1, attach

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Word History and Origins

Origin of detach1

C17: from Old French destachier, from des- dis- 1+ attachier to attach

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Example Sentences

Typically the first step before throwing your blanket in the wash will be to detach the cord and remove it completely from the blanket.

He had detached early in the season, but in the second half he watched every game.

The former allows the screen to be completely detached from the keyboard for use as a tablet.

The bags are waterproof and easy to clean, with simple snap handles to attach and detach as you go.

In the housing craze, prices had become totally detached from the force that governs them, the level of rents on homes and apartments.

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Yet here, as in so many other places, we have let our fears detach from reality—even more than our selfies have detached from it.

“You have to be strong and detach yourself from what could happen,” Giffords told me last fall.

Even if we were conscious of the manipulation, it was very hard to detach ourselves from that because we were so burned out.

To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.

It was a difficult matter to detach the old diplomat from the circle surrounding him, but Varney succeeded at length.

Even the entrance of Rorie, and the beginning of our meal, did not detach him from his train of thought beyond a moment.

I have expressed the idea in other words in order to detach the thoughts of my readers from the traditional false interpretation.

If the Dons detach their fleet out of the Mediterranean, we can do the same—however, that is distant.

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