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
From the library
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.
The first mentioned was, that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had detached Mr.
His sisters’ uneasiness had been equally excited with my own: our coincidence of feeling was soon discovered; and, alike sensible that no time was to be lost in detaching their brother, we shortly resolved on joining him directly in London.
Briarbrae proved to be a large detached house standing in extensive grounds within a few minutes’ walk of the station.
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