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synonyms for disengage

  • back off
  • detach
  • disconnect
  • disentangle
  • dissociate
  • extricate
  • liberate
  • withdraw
  • abstract
  • disassociate
  • disjoin
  • disunite
  • divide
  • ease
  • loose
  • loosen
  • release
  • separate
  • unbind
  • uncouple
  • undo
  • unfasten
  • unloose
  • untie
  • back out
  • cut loose
  • cut out
  • drop out
  • opt out
  • pull the plug
  • set free
  • unfix
  • weasel out
See also synonyms for: disengaged

antonyms for disengage

MOST RELEVANT
  • attach
  • connect
  • couple
  • entangle
  • join
  • link
  • collect
  • combine
  • fasten
  • gather
  • hold
  • keep
  • maintain
  • unite
  • bind
  • engage
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How to use disengage in a sentence

As if that mechanical link made of wood wasn’t cool enough, he took it a step further and designed components to be disengaged individually with the flip of a switch.
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Meanwhile, a double-tap switches to TalkThru mode, which lowers the volume considerably and disengages ANC so you can talk to your wife or neighbor without removing the earbuds—though they can operate with only one in.
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Lastly, adherence support, detection and management of treatment failure, tracing of people who disengaged from care and support to reengage in care are all essential for prevention as well as treatment.
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Some may be disengaged and not want to return simply because they don’t love school.
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More than two decades after the first banner ad was sold, digital advertising has grown so competitive, and so complex, that small publishers are beginning to disengage from it.
THE COMING COOKIE CHANGES WILL FORCE SOME SMALL PUBLISHERS TO GIVE UP ON ADVERTISING ALTOGETHERMAX WILLENSMARCH 31, 2021DIGIDAY
Therefore, if you are still attached to the transitory things of this life, disengage your heart from them now.
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANSVARIOUS
I was prevented by company from which I could not disengage myself.
THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHERJ.W. VON GOETHE
But it is possible to disengage and examine apart the two chief elements in the earliest as in the latest ideas of Godhead.
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANG
She tried to disengage herself from his arm; she trembled, heaved a deep sigh, and fell with her head on his shoulder.
TONY BUTLERCHARLES JAMES LEVER
But I had no desire to play a part in this pantomime, and tried to disengage myself.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXLII. VOL. LV. APRIL, 1844VARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO DISENGAGE

  • detach
  • disconnect
  • disengage
  • dissociate
  • extract
  • isolate
  • part
  • remove
  • separate
  • steal
  • take out
  • uncouple
  • withdraw
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.