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unattaching

unattaching is the present participle and gerund of unattach.

Meaning of unattach

Verb

unattach (third-person singular simple present unattaches, present participle unattaching, simple past and past participle unattached)

  1. (ambitransitive) To detach.
    • To unattach disk images from Disk Utility, select the disk image file and press Delete or drag its icon out of the window.2011, Robyn Ness, Mac OS X Lion in Depth, page 456

Questions about unattaching

What is unattaching the present participle and gerund of?
Unattaching is the present participle and gerund of unattach.

Words near unattaching in the dictionary

  1. unattachable
  2. unattached
  3. unattachedly
  4. unattachedness
  5. unattaches
  6. unattaching
  7. unattachment
  8. unattachments
  9. unattacht
  10. unattackability
  11. unattackable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unattaching (page history and authors); unattach (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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