Both Uses of
detach
in
Me Before You
- He was friendly enough but a bit detached.†
p. 67.5 *detached = separated OR emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
- 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.†
p. 140.1semidetached = partially separatedstandard prefix: The prefix "semi-" means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
Definition:
to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)