Dictionary Entry
disengage
disengage is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.
- 2intransitive verb
To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
- 3verb
become free
"in neutral, the gears disengage"
- 4verb
free or remove obstruction from
"free a path across the cluttered floor"
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- 5verb
release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
"I want to disengage myself from his influence"
"disengage the gears"
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