detached; detaching; detaches
1
: to separate especially from a larger mass and usually without violence or damage
Examples of detach in a Sentence
Detach the upper part of the form and return it with your payment.
During the accident the trailer was detached from the car.
The brush detaches from the vacuum cleaner for easy cleaning.
It can be difficult to detach yourself from the chaos of the situation.
She has been trying to detach herself from an abusive relationship.
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Some robots reportedly collapsed face-down during the latter part of the race, with one robot's head becoming completely detached from its body.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Besides helping the males save themselves, detaching their palps inside the female also increases the likelihood of keeping other males from approaching his partner.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
They’re detached from all of that’s going on outside.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
News broke in January that board trustees were considering a plan to split the district in two using U.S. 377 as the dividing line, effectively detaching the schools in the Keller city limits from those in Fort Worth.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Besides helping the males save themselves, detaching their palps inside the female also increases the likelihood of keeping other males from approaching his partner.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
They’re detached from all of that’s going on outside.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
News broke in January that board trustees were considering a plan to split the district in two using U.S. 377 as the dividing line, effectively detaching the schools in the Keller city limits from those in Fort Worth.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Detach.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detach. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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detach
verb
de·tach
di-ˈtach 
: to separate especially from a larger mass and usually without violence or damage
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