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US
/ˈdɪˌtætʃ, diˈtætʃ/
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[ UK /dɪtˈætʃ/ ]
[ UK /dɪtˈætʃ/ ]
VERB
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come to be detached
His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery -
separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment
detach a regiment -
cause to become detached or separated; take off
detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it
How To Use detach In A Sentence
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property. Times, Sunday Times
- Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
- This done the tournette is set into motion, and when the film is equalized, which is done in a moment, the plate is detached, placed on a leveled stand and slowly dried with the spirit lamp. Photographic Reproduction Processes
- It kinks, detaches itself from actin, unkinks, and reattaches, and thereby ratchets along the actin filament in a series of power strokes.
- They were unable to pull the 3,000-pound anchor to get separation between the two vessels and thus needed to detach the anchor.
- Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
- One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
- These new forces have synchronized with the conscious policy of a certain sector of Canadian opinion which has persistently sought to detach us from that quarter of the world's orbit and the world's people comprised in the British federacy. Whither Canada
- To date, American Suzuki has received two reports of flame arrester screens detaching from the mounting ring. Product Recalls For The Week of July 3-10, 2010 | myFiveBest
