Word family noun attachment detachment adjective attached ≠ unattached ≠ detached detachable verb attach ≠ detach
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdetachde‧tach /dɪˈtætʃ/ ●○○ verb 1 REMOVE[intransitive, transitive] if you detach something, or if it detaches, it becomes separated from the thing it was attached to OPP attachdetach something from something You can detach the hood from the jacket. Please detach and fill out the application form.2 → detach yourself from somebody/something→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
detach• She fiddled around for a while, and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached.• The tires on the toy cars may detach and become a hazard to small children.• The control unit can be detached from the base.• Death, with which they lived so intimately, could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation.• Health care needs to be detached from them and funded from general taxes.• Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.• Eventually, if the body lay undisturbed for long enough, the skin might even detach itself from the body.• Please detach the last section of this form, fill it in, and return it to us.• Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes.detach something from something• Workers detached the power lines from the old, rotting poles.Origin detach (1600-1700) French détacher, from Old French destachier, from atachier “to attach” 