disengage
verb (used with object)
to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten.
was disengaging
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past progressiveof disengage.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Harrison was disengaging a trailer hitch from a sailboat when he came into contact with an overhead power line.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2017
Starting immediately, Botha announced in Cape Town at the opening of the session of Parliament, South Africa was disengaging its forces from Angola.
From Time Magazine Archive
And she stroked the shoulder of the little woman, whose emotion was disengaging the scent of old clothes.
From Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy
She was disengaging a corner of her lace trimming that had become entangled with a large sapphire in a pendant.
From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore
During the period when Spenser was getting his artistic training a great change was going on in our mother-tongue, and the language of literature was disengaging itself more and more from that of ordinary talk.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
