disengage
/ˌdɪsɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/
disengage noun: a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.
Noun
disengage (plural disengages)
Verb
disengage (third-person singular simple present disengages, present participle disengaging, simple past and past participle disengaged)
- To release or loosen from something that binds, entangles, holds, or interlocks.
- Diſingaging myſelf then from his embrace, I made him ſenſible of the reaſons there were for his preſent leaving me; on which, tho' reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himſelf between whiles, with kiſſes, touches, and...1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages...
- With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 165
- Synonyms:
- detach, disentangle, free, unfasten
disengage meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
disengage in Malayalam
- detach, remove, disentangle
- കുരുക്കഴിക്കുക, കെട്ടഴിക്കുക, വിമുക്തമാക്കുക, മാറ്റുക, ഇളക്കിയെടുക്കുക, നീക്കംചെയ്യുക
- pull out of, withdraw, leave
- പിൻവലിയുക, പിൻവാങ്ങുക, പുറകോട്ടു വലിയുക, ഒഴിയുക, പിന്മാറുക, കടക്കുക
disengage in Kannada
- ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸು, ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕಿಸು, ಸಂಬಂಧವನ್ನು ಬಿಡಿಸು, ಬೇರೆ ಮಾಡು, ಯುದ್ಧ ವಿರಾಮನೀಡು
Examples of disengage in a sentence
- He shook it and shook it.¶ After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage.1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 15:
- The more established wisdom about trolls, at this point, is to disengage.2015 February 14, Stephen Marche, “The Epidemic of Facelessness”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Synonyms of disengage
Forms of disengage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | disengages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | disengages |
| present participle | disengaging |
| past participle | disengaged |
| past | disengaged |
Origin of disengage
From Middle French désengager ; dis- + engage.
Words formed from disengage
Words that rhyme with disengage
Questions about disengage
- What does disengage mean?
- Disengage means a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.
- What is disengage in Malayalam?
- Disengage in Malayalam is കുരുക്കഴിക്കുക, കെട്ടഴിക്കുക, വിമുക്തമാക്കുക. See Disengage meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use disengage in a sentence?
- He shook it and shook it.¶ After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage.
- What part of speech is disengage?
- Disengage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce disengage?
- Disengage is pronounced /ˌdɪsɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of disengage?
- The plural of disengage is disengages.
Words near disengage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disengage (page history and authors); disengage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disengage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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