Definition of detach
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Examples of detach in a Sentence
Detach the upper part of the form and return it with your payment.
During the accident the trailer was detached from the car.
The brush detaches from the vacuum cleaner for easy cleaning.
It can be difficult to detach yourself from the chaos of the situation.
She has been trying to detach herself from an abusive relationship.
Recent Examples of detach from the Web
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After several attempts, the endeavor had to be canceled after one of the covers got detached from the frame and broke, damaging the propellers.
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Not even a cash-crunch at Toronto mortgage lender Home Capital Group, a succession of government tightening measures or warnings about how price gains are detached from economic fundamentals have had a sustained cooling effect.
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Metropolis 2055: Modular neighborhoods can detach and move to other seasteads or form new seasteads.
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A nation where citizens can come and go freely, detaching their modular floating living quarters and sailing off to a better floating town, untethered by anything but their means and their free will, is not an island without politics—
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Those inside the gates felt detached from the clamor at the course’s doorstep.
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Reporters strive to be balanced, neutral and perhaps even emotionally detached in their work.
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The summers of the college years are, in many cases, important steps in detaching from childhood, each one a rite of passage.
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The nucleobases automatically adhered to the peptide in a loose fashion, detaching and attaching themselves until stable.
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Origin and Etymology of detach
French détacher, from Old French destachier, from des- de- + -tachier (as in atachier to attach)
First Known Use: 1686
DETACH Defined for English Language Learners
detach
playDefinition of detach for English Language Learners
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: to separate (something) from something larger
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: to separate (yourself) from someone or something
DETACH Defined for Kids
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detached
;detaching
: to separate from something else or from others especially for a purpose The hood detaches from the jacket.
detachable
\-ə-bəl\ adjectiveLearn More about detach
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See words that rhyme with detach Spanish Central: Translation of detach Nglish: Translation of detach for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of detach for Arabic speakers
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