detach
/dɪˈtæt͡ʃ/ verb B2- To take apart from; to take off. · to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment
- To separate for a special object or use. · to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment
- To come off something. · Now that the zipper has detached, my winter coat won't keep me very warm.
He/she/it detaches · Past detached · Past participle detached · -ing form detaching
Verb forms
- Base form
- detach
- He/she/it
- detaches
- Past
- detached
- Past participle
- detached
- -ing form
- detaching
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The result was that when the new-comer left the hotel with the cicerone, a man detached himself from the rest of the idlers, and without having been seen by the traveller, and appearing to excite no attention from the guide, followed the stranger with as much skill as a Parisian police agent would have used.
In the meanwhile” (the king here detached the cross of the Legion of Honor which he usually wore over his blue coat, near the cross of St.
A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls, but it was blotched in places with mildew, and here and there great strips had become detached and hung down, exposing the yellow plaster beneath.
In the centre of the cell, in a circle traced with a fragment of plaster detached from the wall, sat a man whose tattered garments scarcely covered him.
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