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She spoke in a cold, detached manner as though she didn't care about him anymore.detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
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Her retina detached from the back of her eye, so she had to be rushed into surgery.detached = separated
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Does the house have an attached or detached garage?detached = separated (not attached)
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The regiment was detached from the second Brigade and sent to the north.detached = separated
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These days, she seems emotionally detached whenever she talks about him.
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...he saw a brown wall of fur detach itself from the forest to his rear and come down on him like a runaway truck. He just had time to see that it was a moose, (source)detach = separate (come out of)
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I should be scared, I thought with an odd detached feeling, but I'm not. (source)detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
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Two shadows detached themselves from the gloom as Winnie and Jesse came up. (source)detached = separated
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Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment. (source)detach = separate
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His arms felt as if they were slowly detaching themselves from their sockets.† (source)detaching = separating
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He sees me looking at him and detaches himself from his pod. (source)detaches = separates
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Once upon a time Miri had planned to wear her bridesmaid dress with its detachable organza overskirt to the ninth-grade prom, but she'd decided against going.† (source)detachable = able to be separated (from something else)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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In front of the mirror I detachedly examined my body.† (source)
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I hated her for the fact that at the age of twenty-six I lived in a box room in a semidetached house just so she could have her illegitimate son in with her in the bigger bedroom.† (source)semidetached = partially separatedstandard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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As some huge boulder, from its rocky bed Detach'd, and by the wintry torrent's force Hurl'd down the cliff's steep face, when constant rains The massive rock's firm hold have undermin'd;† (source)Detach'd = separated
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But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.† (source)undetached = not separated; or not emotionally uninvolvedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undetached means not and reverses the meaning of detached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I have been haunted, I must confess, by an element of presumption in the sense of being an intruder upon the terrain of an experience so bestial, so inexplicable, so undetachably and rightfully the possession alone of those who suffered and died, or survived it.† (source)undetachably = in a manner that cannot be emotionally uninvolved or cannot be separatedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undetachably means not and reverses the meaning of detachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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