detach

Pronunciation

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Verb

Plain form detach

Third-person singular detaches

Past tense detached

Past participle detached

Present participle detaching

1. When you detach something, you remove it from another object.

   I detached the piece of jigsaw puzzle as it does not fit there.

Synonyms

• remove
• take off

Antonyms

• restore
• attach