| 单词 | detach |
| 释义 | detach (once / 256 pages) v If you separate one thing from another, you are detaching it. As a newborn baby, you became familiar with this concept as soon as your umbilical cord was cut! You can use the word detach to talk about physically pulling two things apart. For example, when your shirt comes back from the dry cleaner missing a few buttons, it’s safe to assume they got detached during the cleaning process. This word is easy to remember when you consider its antonym attach. Once you have attached that election pin to your lapel, you better detach it when your candidate loses! WORD FAMILYdetach: detachable, detached, detaches, detaching, detachment+/detachable: detachably/detached: detachedly, semidetached/detachment: detachments USAGE EXAMPLESINCIDENTS: One report of the front wheels detaching from the scooter, resulting in an injury to a child who fell off the scooter. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) But the transmitter eventually detached, likely because of old boat strike scars, so biologists didn’t attach another one. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) A little flat, without emotion, but so detached that it becomes melancholy and instantly nostalgic. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v cause to become detached or separated; take off detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it Ant|Hypo|Hyper attach cause to be attached break, break off, snap off break a piece from a whole unbinduntie or unfasten unhooktake off a hook disconnect make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten 2v come to be detached His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper come away, come off attach become attached blow off come off due to an explosion or other strong force chop off, cut off, lop offremove by or as if by cutting unsolderremove the soldering from fall offcome off absciseremove or separate by abscission roachcut the mane off (a horse) divide, part, separate come apart 3v separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment detach a regiment Hyper divide, separate make a division or separation |
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