Definition of detach

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Detach (v. i.) To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

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Isolate :: Isolate (v. t.) To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
L''envoy :: L'envoy (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river..
Detach :: Detach (v. t.) 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..
Anecdote :: Anecdote (n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
Detachment :: Detachment (n.) That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service..
Dotted :: Dotted (a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects..
Partisan :: Partisan (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Outlying :: Outlying (a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached..
Sputterer :: Sputter (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech..
Odd :: Odd (superl.) Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles..
Insulate :: Insulate (v. t.) To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate..
Squadroned :: Squadron (n.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron..
Unlimber :: Unlimber (v. t.) To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun..
Partisan :: Partisan (a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps..
Detachment :: Detachment (n.) The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached..
Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..
Medley :: Medley (n.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.
Unship :: Unship (v. t.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller..
Sessile :: Sessile (a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
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