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
He was disengaging the fringe of Pauline's shawl, which caught the button of his coat, and, looking up as his sister spoke, his eyes met Beulah's anxious gaze.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
This was the opinion of Theagenes of Rhegium, who wrote at a period when a crude physicism was disengaging itself from the earlier religious and mythical cosmogonic systems of Greece.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
CHATURIKÁ.—While her maid was disengaging her mantle, which had caught in the branch of a shrub, I ran away.
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold
