detach
verb (used with object)
to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite.
is detaching
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present progressiveof detach (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For Bob Litwin, a 71-year-old resident of Boulder, Colo., the main goal is detaching from the outcome while enjoying the challenge of competing.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2019
The risk you take living that life is detaching too much emotionally so that you don’t see a good thing when it’s inches away from your face.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2019
The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The huge Red Cross sergeant, in a hunter's chestnut waistcoat which gives him the chest of a gorilla, is detaching the pendent entrails twisted among the beams of the shattered woodwork.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
The only part of your basic personality I'll need to modify at all is detaching you emotionally enough that you'll no longer have or form close personal ties that would affect a Ranger's necessary impartiality.
From The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson
