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Another word for detach

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Verb

  1. To separate one thing from another thing

    See also:

    assemble

  2. To become or cause to become apart one from another

    Idioms:
    See also:

    assemble

  3. To remove from association with

    See also:

    assemble

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Another word for detach

Verb
  1. See also:

    unhitch

    divide

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Sentence Examples

  • It is, therefore, impossible to detach Ex.

  • Meanwhile he sought to detach Great Britain and Austria from the alliance.

  • Truth and error are about the individual and attach or detach predicates correctly and incorrectly.

  • Hydra must, in short, be a living representative of the ancestor of which the actinula-stage is a transient reminiscence in the development of higher forms. It may be pointed out in this connexion that the fixation of Hydra is only temporary, and that the animal is able at all times to detach itself, to move to a new situation, and to fix itself again.

  • Unable to detach the congregation from the teacher, Darby began a rival assembly.

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