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US
/dɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
]
[ UK /dˌɪsɛnɡˈeɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsɛnɡˈeɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
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become free
in neutral, the gears disengage -
release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
disengage the gears
I want to disengage myself from his influence -
free or remove obstruction from
free a path across the cluttered floor
How To Use disengage In A Sentence
- In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
- It includes strategies for promoting high academic achievement as well as off-setting problems of alienation, disengagement, and emotional distress.
- Unlike in other areas of life, in warfare disengagement can be seen as a positive outcome of the application of technology.
- With careers and raises often hanging in the balance, few instructors can afford to displease the growing number of disengaged students making evaluation forms.
- Pressing a button on the rear of the fishing reel disengages the line pickup thus allowing the line to fly off of the spool.
- The authors of the report appropriately place primary blame for the breakdown in professionalism on former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales, who showed a breathtaking disengagement from the process of disposing of nine presidential appointees. Underplayed Stories of the Day - Swampland - TIME.com
- Later he disengaged himself from the promise of marriage.
- At the same time, you must overtake the security guards, disengage the alarm system, and disable the security cameras.
- Hoping to avoid delays and embarrassing publicity, in July the council started quietly pressuring Pike to disengage from the venture.
- He wiped them with one temerariously disengaged hand. The War in the Air