disengage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪdʒ/

  Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

disengage (plural disengages)

1. (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry

Verb

disengage (third-person singular simple present disengages, present participle disengaging, simple past and past participle disengaged)

1. To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 5

     Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to.

Translations

fencing

release, detach

• Spanish: desenganchar (es), desatar (es), liberar (es), retirar (es), desacoplar (es), desasir (es), cesar el contacto (es), desembragar (es), cortar el contacto (es), terminar el contacto (es), finalizar el contacto (es), acabar el contacto (es), cesar (es), terminar (es), finalizar (es), acabar (es)