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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Detach" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Saunders was a grave one. Upon the one hand, he was asked to detach half of the already inadequate garrisons of Fort Saint David and Madras upon an enterprise which, if unsuccessful, must be followed by the loss of the British possessions, of which he was governor. He would have to take this great risk, not upon the advice of a tried veteran like Lawrence, ...

— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... truth—if indeed truth there was—had been crushed into ashes by it. As he had lived, so must he die, he told himself with some return of that philosophic quietude which had led him, stout-hearted and brave, through many dangers. And, at that moment when he had been striving to detach his thoughts from their vain task of conjuring up useless regrets, there had come what even now seemed to be the granting of his last passionate prayer. The man whom he had longed to see once more before his eyes were closed forever upon the world, with such a longing ...

— A Monk of Cruta • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Tom, as they gazed at the bronze, green-spotted sides of the ferocious fish, whose fang-armed jaws closed with a snap upon the handle of the gaff, from which a strong shake was needed to detach it. ...

— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn

... furnaces which are so vitally important in one of England's greatest manufacturing industries. A glowing mass of coal and iron ore and limestone is here urged to vivid incandescence by a blast of air itself heated to an intense temperature. The mighty heat thus generated—sufficient as it is to detach the iron from its close alliance with the earthy materials and to render the metal out as a pure stream rushing white-hot from the vent—is sufficiently confined by a few feet of brick-work, one side of ...

— Time and Tide - A Romance of the Moon • Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

... not always try to detach her lover from the rest of the company, though she enjoys a tete-a-tete as much as he does. She does not want to be sent with him on fictitious errands to the bottom of the garden. She leaves him to find the opportunities, and has a horror of ...

— The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage • G. R. M. Devereux

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