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Disengage vs Detach - What's the difference?

disengage | detach |

Detach is a antonym of disengage.



As verbs the difference between disengage and detach

is that disengage is to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free while detach is to take apart from; to take off.

As a noun disengage

is a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.

disengage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry
  • Verb

    (disengag)
  • (ambitransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to. }}
  • * 1982 , Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
  • Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
    "Shake," prompted Ford.
    Arthur did, nervously at first, as if it might turn out to be a fish. Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief. He shook it and shook it.
    After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage .

    Derived terms

    * disengagement

    detach

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To take apart from; to take off.
  • to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment
  • (military) To separate for a special object or use.
  • to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

    Antonyms

    * attach

    Derived terms

    * detachable * detachment