disengage
verb/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disengage | /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ |
| he / she / it disengages | /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪz/ /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪz/ |
| past simple disengaged | /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ |
| past participle disengaged | /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ |
| -ing form disengaging | /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/ /ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] (formal) to free somebody/something from the person or thing that is holding them or it; to become free
- disengage yourself (from somebody/something) She gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son.
- (figurative) They wished to disengage themselves from these policies.
- disengage (something/somebody) (from something/somebody) to disengage the clutch (= when driving a car)
- We saw the booster rockets disengage and fall into the sea.
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- [intransitive, transitive] disengage (something) (specialist) if an army disengages or somebody disengages it, it stops fighting and moves awayTopics War and conflictc2 compare engage
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