单词 | detach |
释义 | de·tach 1. < detach a stamp from a sheet > — opposed to attach 2. < detached himself from the embrace > 3. < detach a ship from a fleet > Synonyms: < I rose, and detaching the silver ornament from my cloak presented it to him — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < I brought my face close and aroused no sign of life. Then I reached up and slowly detached the butterfly from its resting place — William Beebe > disengage suggests an extricating or freeing of something involved, enmeshed, or entangled, literally or figuratively < gently disengaging himself from her enfolding arms — Charles Dickens > < the taxi disengaged itself from the traffic — Dan Wickenden > < psychology, also, was beginning to disengage itself from its dependence on general philosophy — A.N.Whitehead > abstract indicates a withdrawing, gathering, or separating out from a mass or body; it is used more often of intangibles than tangibles < I suspect that some of these early chapters will be abstracted from the autobiography and be reprinted again and again — Book-of-the-Month Club News > < the Church of England, which might be supposed able to abstract the question from its worldly confusions, is of two minds also — Virginia Woolf > prescind indicates a separating or detaching mentally for purposes of consideration or philosophic analysis < can anyone forget the great and gentle Buddha who, prescinding from any belief in soul or self, gave to thousands of millions of people a code of conduct? — Times Literary Supplement > |
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