All 3 Uses of
detach
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Main Street
- She felt old and detached through high-school commencement week, which is the fete of youth in Gopher Prairie; through baccalaureate sermon, senior Parade, junior entertainment, commencement address by an Iowa clergyman who asserted that he believed in the virtue of virtuousness, and the procession of Decoration Day, when the few Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the spring-powdered road to the cemetery.†
Chpt 18
- But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.†
Chpt 22 *
- Yet he was vain of his new turn-down collars and sleek ties; he often spoke of the "sloppy dressing" of Dr. McGanum; and he laughed at old men who wore detachable cuffs or Gladstone collars.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)