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Definition
to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)
- The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.p. 18.0
- By off the plastic he meant that the dead cells had detached from the surface of the flask and had floated away in the broth.p. 184.7
There are no more uses of "detach" in The Hot Zone.
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