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Definition of Detach

1. Verb. Cause to become detached or separated; take off. "Detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"

2. Verb. Separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment. "Detach a regiment"

3. Verb. Come to be detached. "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

Definition of Detach

1. v. t. 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. v. i. To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

Definition of Detach

1. Verb. To take apart from; to take off. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detach

1. to unfasten and separate [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detach

desynchronized desynchronizes desynchronizing desynchronosis desynchronous desyne desyned desynes desyning desynonymization

desynonymizations desynonymize desynonymized desynonymizes desynonymizing detach (current term) detachabilities detachability detachable detachable balloon

detachableness detachably detached detached cranial section detached craniotomy detached house detached houses detached retina detachedly detachedness

Literary usage of Detach

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"We had, by a movement of unparalleled audacity, menaced the vitals of the rebellion and forced the leaders at Richmond to detach a formidable corps for ..."

2. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Gen Ten Breech to detach 1000 Men from His Brigade, to be Organized into Two ... Upon the Receipt hereof you'I also detach from your Brigade 1000 Men in- '. ..."

3. A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by James Browne (1849)
"CHAPTER X. Dispersion of Hie Murray• and other friends of the Earl of Sutherland—Attempt to detach Mackay from the Earl of Caithness—Break] his ..."

4. The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the by David Hume (1810)
"had used some endeavours to detach her before the revolution ; and she lived in great harmony with her husband to whom she bore six children, ..."

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