detach
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++de·tach /dɪˈtætʃ/ ●○○ verb 1 REMOVE[intransitive, transitive] if you detach something, or if it detaches, it becomes separated from the thing it was attached to 拆下，分开，拆开，卸下 OPP attachdetach something from something You can detach the hood from the jacket. 你可以把风帽从夹克上拆下来。 Please detach and fill out the application form. 请撕下申请表并填好。2 detach yourself from somebody/something SEPARATEto try to be less involved in or less concerned about a situation 使自己摆脱某人/某事物 Doctors have to detach themselves from their feelings. 医生必须抛开个人的感情。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
detach• She fiddled around for a while, and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached.• The tires on the toy cars may detach and become a hazard to small children.• The control unit can be detached from the base.• Death, with which they lived so intimately, could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation.• Health care needs to be detached from them and funded from general taxes.• Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.• Eventually, if the body lay undisturbed for long enough, the skin might even detach itself from the body.• Please detach the last section of this form, fill it in, and return it to us.• Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes.detach something from something• Workers detached the power lines from the old, rotting poles.Origin detach (1600-1700) French détacher, from Old French destachier, from atachier “to attach”de·tach verbChineseSyllable
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detach
de‧tach /dɪˈtætʃ/
verb
OPP attach
detach something from something
You can detach the hood from the jacket.
Please detach and fill out the application form.
2. detach yourself from somebody/something to try to be less involved in or less concerned about a situation:
Doctors have to detach themselves from their feelings.
de‧tach /dɪˈtætʃ/
verb Word Family: noun: attachment, detachment; adjective: attached ≠ unattached ≠ detached, detachable; verb: attach ≠ detach
Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: détacher, from Old French destachier, from atachier 'to attach'
1. [intransitive and transitive] if you detach something, or if it detaches, it becomes separated from the thing it was attached to Language: French
Origin: détacher, from Old French destachier, from atachier 'to attach'
OPP attach
detach something from something
2. detach yourself from somebody/something to try to be less involved in or less concerned about a situation: