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verb

Detach v. t. (past & past part. detached; pres. part. detaching)

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.

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.

Synonyms: To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin; withdraw; draw off. See Detail.

Detach v. i. To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage. "(A vapor) detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights."

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Etymology of 'Detach'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Detach" Quotes from Famous Books

... to an effective force of one hundred and thirty thousand and his artillery increased to four hundred guns. Lee had been compelled to detach Longstreet's corps, comprising nearly a third of his army for service in North Carolina. The force under his command was barely ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... entitled to, and from the allegiance of friendship which our hearts all swore to him. But never was the genuine and confiding texture of his soul more manifest than on such occasions; he knew that nothing on earth could detach me from him; and he resented insinuations against the sincerity and integrity of a friend, which he would not have noticed had they been pointed against himself. With such a man to have battled in the ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore

... followed by great hardships, but Christine continued to sacrifice everything to her husband. The death of their child drew him away from his task for a time, but he again took it up, his mind becoming more and more unhinged. Christine made a last effort to detach him, but the call of his masterpiece was too strong, and one morning she found him hanging in front of the picture, dead. She fell on the floor in a faint, and lay there to all appearance as dead as her husband, both of them crushed by the ...

— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... and look on at its happiness with horror, it didn't care. It was utterly indifferent to your praise or blame, and the praise or blame of other people; or to your happiness and theirs. It was open to you to own it as your self or to detach yourself from it in your horror. It was stronger and saner than you. If you chose to set up that awful conflict in your soul ...

— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair

... mug. Not a drop. He put it back gently with a faint sigh—and closed his eyes. He thought:—That lunatic Belfast will bring me some water if I ask. Fool. I am very thirsty.... It was very hot in the cabin, and it seemed to turn slowly round, detach itself from the ship, and swing out smoothly into a luminous, arid space where a black sun shone, spinning very fast. A place without any water! No water! A policeman with the face of Donkin drank a glass of beer by the side of ...

— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad

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