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DETACH
detach
(verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off; “detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it”
detach, come off, come away
(verb) come to be detached; “His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery”
detach
(verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; “detach a regiment”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
detach (third-person singular simple present detaches, present participle detaching, simple past and past participle detached)
(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
(transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use.
(intransitive) To come off something.
Synonyms
• (take apart from): disengage, unfasten; see also disconnect or deadhere
• (separate for a special object or use): allocate, earmark; see also set apart
• (come off something): fall off
Antonyms
• attach
Anagrams
• Cath ed, cathed, chated, hectad
Source: Wiktionary
De*tach", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detached; p. pr. & vb. n. Detaching.] Etym: [F. détacher (cf. It. distaccare, staccare); pref. dé (L. dis) + the root found also in E. attach. See Attach, and cf. Staccato.]
1. To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
2. To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.
Syn.
– To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin; withdraw;; draw off. See Detail.
De*tach", v. i.
Definition: To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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