Disengaged vs Disengage - What's the difference?
disengaged | disengage |
(disengage)
Unconnected; detached.
(dated) Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 40:
*:‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’
(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
As verbs the difference between disengaged and disengage
is that disengaged is (disengage) while disengage is (ambitransitive) to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.As an adjective disengaged
is unconnected; detached.As a noun disengage is
(fencing) a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.disengaged
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(en adjective)disengage
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(disengag)- 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 .
