The meaning of Detaching

verb

Cease to support or look after (someone); desert.

Usage examples:

Her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age

noun

Complete lack of inhibition or restraint.

Usage examples:

She sings and sways with total abandon

verb

Forsake; leave behind

verb

Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.

Usage examples:

An urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants

verb

To cause a person or people to stop supporting someone or to stop feeling welcome

Usage examples:

All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its old readers., the alienation of young adults …

noun

A shortcoming, imperfection, or lack.

Usage examples:

Genetic defects

verb

Abandon one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one.

Usage examples:

He defected to the soviet union after the war

noun

Something that is lacking or that is not exactly right in someone or something

Usage examples:

The cars have a defect in the electrical system that may cause them to stall., i replaced the defec…

verb

Separate or release (someone or something) from something to which they are attached or connected.

Usage examples:

I disengaged his hand from mine

noun

A disengaging movement.

Usage examples:

Your feint (which always precedes a disengage even if you don't mean to) should be in a clear line.

verb

To become separate or not connected, or to cause this to happen

Usage examples:

[ i ] the us should not disengage from europe, she said.

verb

(especially in abstract contexts) disconnect or separate.

Usage examples:

The word ‘spiritual’ has become for many dissociated from religion

verb

To consider as separate and not related

Usage examples:

Dissociate someone/something from someone/something i can't dissociate the man from his political o…

adjective

Able to act or be done as one wishes; not under the control of another.

Usage examples:

I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free

adverb

Without cost or payment.

Usage examples:

Ladies were admitted free

verb

Release from confinement or slavery.

Usage examples:

They were freed from jail

verb

Go away from.

Usage examples:

She left london on june 6

noun

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

noun

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces.

Usage examples:

Joe was home on leave

verb

Bite or pinch sharply.

Usage examples:

One of the dogs nipped him on the leg

noun

A sharp bite or pinch.

Usage examples:

A strong beak which can deliver a serious nip

verb

Take a sip or sips of spirits.

Usage examples:

The men nipped from the bottle

noun

An amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something.

Usage examples:

Divide the circle into three equal parts

verb

(of two things) move away from each other.

Usage examples:

His lips parted in a smile

adverb

To some extent; partly (often used to contrast different parts of something).

Usage examples:

The city is now part slum, part consumer paradise

verb

Leave (a place), usually permanently.

Usage examples:

Hippies finally quit two sites in hampshire last night

adjective

Rid of.

Usage examples:

I want to be quit of him

noun

Used in names of various small songbirds found in the caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.

Usage examples:

The grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night.

verb

Unfasten the buttons of (a garment).

Usage examples:

Unbuttoning her jacket she sat down at the table

verb

To unfasten the buttons on something such as a shirt

Usage examples:

He unbuttoned his jacket and sat back comfortably in his chair., his shirt was unbuttoned to show o…

verb

Deselect (an option on an electronic interface) by pressing a button on a mouse or screen.

Usage examples:

County workers running the program forgot to unclick a box that loaded all the early voting results

verb

Release or unfasten (something) with a clicking sound.

Usage examples:

I put my hand down to unclick my seatbelt but realized i forgot to buckle it in the first place

verb

Disconnect (something, especially a railway vehicle that has been coupled to another).

Usage examples:

They uncoupled the engine

verb

Unfasten, untie, or loosen (something).

Usage examples:

The knot was difficult to undo

noun

A feature of a computer program that allows a user to cancel or reverse the last command executed.

Usage examples:

The undo command

verb

Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect

verb

Unhook or unfasten (something tethered to or caught on something else).

Usage examples:

He unhitched the side of the trailer

verb

Unfasten or detach (something that is held or caught by a hook).

Usage examples:

She unhooked a towelling robe from behind the door

verb

Undo or unfasten (something that is tied or tied up).

Usage examples:

She knelt to untie her laces

verb

To unfasten a knot or something tied

Usage examples:

I had to help her untie her shoelaces.

verb

Unfasten the zip fastener of.

Usage examples:

He unzipped his black jacket

verb

To open the zipper (= a fastener consisting of two rows of metal or plastic teeth) on something

verb

To return a computer file to its original size after it has been zipped (= reduced in size so that it can be easily sent or stored)

Usage examples:

After you have unzipped the file, click on the 'start' button.