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disattach

disattach verb: to detach.

Verb

disattach (third-person singular simple present disattaches, present participle disattaching, simple past and past participle disattached)

  1. (transitive) To detach.
    • A political result, we may also say aim, of the frumentarian plebiscite of Gaius was to disattach the city populace from its conservative moorings and to enlist it in the service of reform.1909, George Willis Botsford, The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic

Forms of disattach

third-person singular presentdisattaches
present participledisattaching
past participledisattached
pastdisattached

Origin of disattach

From dis- + attach.

Questions about disattach

What does disattach mean?
Disattach means to detach.
What part of speech is disattach?
Disattach is a verb.
What is the past tense of disattach?
The past tense of disattach is disattached.

Words near disattach in the dictionary

  1. disastrophes
  2. disastrous
  3. disastrously
  4. disastrousness
  5. disatisfied
  6. disattach
  7. disattached
  8. disattaches
  9. disattaching
  10. disattachment
  11. disattachments

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