disengage
Meaning of disengage
verb
- separate or release (someone or something) from something to which they are attached or connected.
I disengaged his hand from mine
they clung together for a moment, then she disengaged herself
- remove (troops) from an area of conflict.
the ceasefire gave the commanders a chance to disengage their forces
plans were already afoot for the Americans to disengage from the city
- pass the point of one's sword over or under the opponent's sword to change the line of attack.
noun
a disengaging movement.
Information about disengage
- The plural form of disengage is: disengages.
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Hyphenation of disengage
dis-en-gage
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- disengage is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
disengage synonyms
Meaning withdraw:
Meaning free:
Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:
Meaning disengage (something or part of something) and remove it:
Meaning free (something or someone) from something that they are entangled with:
Meaning free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty:
Meaning become detached or disconnected; move apart:
Meaning allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free:
Meaning make (something tied, fastened, or fixed in place) less tight or firm:
Meaning set free; release:
Meaning break the connection of or between:
Meaning open the fastening of; undo (something):
Meaning unfasten (something fastened with a clasp or similar device):
Meaning disconnect (something, especially a railway vehicle that has been coupled to another):
Meaning separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else:
Meaning unfasten, untie, or loosen (something):
Meaning unfasten or detach (something that is held or caught by a hook):
Meaning undo; let free:
Meaning unhook or unfasten (something tethered to or caught on something else):
Meaning undo or unfasten (something that is tied or tied up):
Meaning release (a pair of animals) from a yoke:
Meaning set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression:
Meaning separate or disunite:
Meaning cause (a group) to break up or separate:
Meaning separate (bones) at the joints:
Meaning go away from:
Meaning leave (a place), usually permanently:
disengage antonyms
Meaning join or fasten (something) to something else:
Meaning bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established:
Meaning come or go into (a place):
Words that rhyme with disengage
Gage, gage, broadgage, baggage, foggage, luggage, frigage, coengage, counterdisengage, drengage, engage, greengage, preengage, reengage, burgage, countergage, harbergage, herbergage, nonburgage, undergage, disgage, dismortgage, mortgage, overmortgage, remortgage, submortgage, unmortgage
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