Disengaging: alternatives and connections

A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other;…

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liber…

of Disengage

To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to…

To free from a gage or pledge; to disengage.

To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage.

To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not…

To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to cle…

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to li…

To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.

To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon.

To disengage, as a clutch.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.