disengage
disengage is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed. Milton. Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. Transl. of Lavoisier.
- 2.To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self. From a friends's grave how soon we disengage! Young.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absolution
- absolve
- acquire
- acquit
- acquittal
- acquittance
- adrift
- affranchise
- affranchisement
- asunder
- break
- cast
- clear
- collar
- deliver
- deliverance
- disband
- discharge
- disengagement
- disentangle
- disenthrall
- disenthrallment
- disjoin
- dismiss
- dismissal
- emancipate
- emancipation
- enfranchise
- enfranchisement
- enlarge
- enlargement
- escape
- extricate
- extrication
- free
- from
- gain
- get
- harness
- let
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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