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disattaching

disattaching is the present participle and gerund of disattach.

Meaning of disattach

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

Questions about disattaching

What is disattaching the present participle and gerund of?
Disattaching is the present participle and gerund of disattach.

Words near disattaching in the dictionary

  1. disastrousness
  2. disatisfied
  3. disattach
  4. disattached
  5. disattaches
  6. disattaching
  7. disattachment
  8. disattachments
  9. disattend
  10. disattending
  11. disattends

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