detach
Other forms: detached; detaching; detaches
If you separate one thing from another, you are detaching it. As a newborn baby, you became familiar with this concept as soon as your umbilical cord was cut!
You can use the word detach to talk about physically pulling two things apart. For example, when your shirt comes back from the dry cleaner missing a few buttons, it’s safe to assume they got detached during the cleaning process. This word is easy to remember when you consider its antonym attach. Once you have attached that election pin to your lapel, you better detach it when your candidate loses!
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cause to become detached or separated; take off
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come to be detached“His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery”
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attach
become attached
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blow off
come off due to an explosion or other strong force
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chop off, cut off, lop off
remove by or as if by cutting
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unsolder
remove the soldering from
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fall off
come off
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abscise
remove or separate by abscission
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roach
cut the mane off (a horse)
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attach
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separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment
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Vocabulary lists containing detach
The sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson will need resourcefulness, courage, and strength in order to stay alive.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was only seven when her Japanese-American family was forced to leave their home in Long Beach, California for an internment camp during World War II. This is her story.