Disengage: alternatives and connections

To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.

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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.

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To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty.

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To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

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To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.

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The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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A kind of frock for children.

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A kind of frock for children.

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