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Disengage vs Set_free - What's the difference?

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Disengage is a related term of set_free.


As verbs the difference between disengage and set_free

is that disengage is (ambitransitive) to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free while set_free is to release, to free, to give freedom to.

As a noun disengage

is (fencing) 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

    Related terms

    * engage

    set_free

    English

    Verb

  • To release, to free, to give freedom to.
  • * 1921 , , The Moon Out Of Reach , ch. 36:
    • "Well, you can tell Nan that she won't marry Peter Mallory with my consent. I'll never set her free to be another man's wife."

    Synonyms

    * befree, let loose, set loose, turn loose

    Anagrams

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