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