All 8 Uses
detach
in
On the Beach
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- He managed to detach her from the hotel after her second double brandy and took her into the dockyard and to Sydney, hoping that she would behave herself in front of his officers.†
Chpt 2
- He managed to detach her from the hotel after her second drink, and they walked to the station in the evening light.†
Chpt 2 *
- It was not until lunch was nearly over that she was able to detach her mind from the baby.†
Chpt 4
- Dwight Towers came to the periscope, detached another sailor from it, and stood looking at the shore.†
Chpt 6detached = separated OR emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
- He was off again several laps behind, and now one of the Bugattis detached itself from the chaos around The Slide and joined in.†
Chpt 7
- He detached two youngsters to go back with John.†
Chpt 7
- He detached the terminals from the battery and greased the connections.†
Chpt 9
- He selected a fairly light one with a brightly coloured detachable cushion that he thought would please Mary and would also serve to pad the roof of his car.†
Chpt 9detachable = 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)