DISENGAGE Synonyms

• cause to become detached or separated; take off

• separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment

• come to be detached

• cause to become undone

• become undone or untied

• pull back or move away or backward

• withdraw from active participation

• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles

• cause to be returned

• take back what one has said

• keep away from others

• break from a meeting or gathering

• retire gracefully

• remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

• lose interest

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

• an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

• pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable

• make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

• make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

• become separated, disconnected or disjoint

• place or set apart

• obtain in pure form

• set apart from others

• separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

• merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)

• the act of liberating someone or something

• a process that liberates or discharges something

• an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• euphemistic expressions for death

• a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

• a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

• activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

• the act of allowing a fluid to escape

• a formal written statement of relinquishment

• (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

• release, as from one's grip

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• let (something) fall or spill from a container

• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

• eliminate (a substance)

• generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

• make (information) available for publication

• part with a possession or right

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• make (assets) available

• independent; not united or joint

• a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

• a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

• separated according to race, sex, class, or religion

• have the connection undone; having become separate

• act as a barrier between; stand between

• force, take, or pull apart

• mark as different

• separate into parts or portions

• divide into components or constituents

• arrange or order by classes or categories

• make a division or separation

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• go one's own way; move apart

• become separated into pieces or fragments

• treat differently on the basis of sex or race

• move or break apart

• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

• release from a clasp

• disconnect or separate

• take off a hook

• remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave

• remove the load from (a container or vehicle)

• remove the strap or straps from

• undo the ties of

• cause to become loose

• remove the yoke from

• Remove from a latch

• (knot theory) A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.

• To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.

• To delete (a file).

• release from entanglement of difficulty

• extricate from entanglement

• free from involvement or entanglement

• separate the tangles of

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb