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
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.
• (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
• attach
• 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
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
