Disengage

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  • intransitive verb. To release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles. synonym: extricate.
  • intransitive verb. To release (oneself) from an engagement, pledge, or obligation.
  • intransitive verb. To free or detach oneself; withdraw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To set free or release from pledge or engagement; release from promise, engagement, or vow.
  • To release or set free from union, attachment, or connection; detach; loosen or unfasten, and set free; release: as, to disengage a metal from its gangue, or a garment from a clinging bramble; to disengage the mind from study.
  • In fencing, to carry or pass the point of (the weapon) from one side to the other over or under the adversary's, when the previous relative position or engagement of the blades is to the opponent's advantage. The movement is executed by describing with the point of the weapon a very small circle. Rolando (ed. Forsyth).
  • To withdraw; become separated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
  • transitive 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
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry
  • verb. To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
  • verb. free or remove obstruction from
  • verb. become free
  • Word Usage
    "And then he thought it was best that at that time, he started to, what they call disengage the autopilot and control the rate of descent on his own."
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