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disengaged

/dis-en-geyj/US // ˌdɪs ɛnˈgeɪdʒ //UK // (ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ) //

脱离的,失业,脱离了,脱离

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dis·en·gaged, dis·en·gag·ing.

    • : to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
    • : to free from an engagement, pledge, obligation, etc.: He accepted the invitation, but was later forced to disengage himself.
    • : Military. to break off action with.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dis·en·gaged, dis·en·gag·ing.

    • : to become disengaged; free oneself.

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Examples

  • Engage when he’s kind, disengage completely when he uses or defends cruelty.

  • Wilkie has faced criticism for appearing disengaged from the VA’s critical programs.

  • Now they can help disengage the sympathetic nervous system, commonly known as fight-or-flight mode, and bring the body into a parasympathetic state, or rest-and-digest mode, Almeyda explains.

  • “U.S. forces have already disengaged…they should go home,” Zai says.

  • Anyway Y has deliberately disengaged from the one source that might tell him differently.

  • Barack Obama is also far more aloof and disengaged than George W. Bush.

  • There can be no doubt that the divided, paranoid, disengaged Arab Americans Hussein Ibish describes do exist.

  • He sighed, had bad posture at the podium, and seemed generally disengaged.

  • He rode easily, with a loose rein, and he waved his disengaged hand the instant he caught sight of the white faces.

  • Some time since, by way of trying the power of the engine, we disengaged the balance-bob.

  • Aristide disengaged himself, waved his hand airily towards Perigueux, and smiled blandly.

  • She took his offered arm with her disengaged hand, as an additional support; and her white face turned a shade whiter.

  • The man roared furiously, and gave a convulsive heave that almost upset myself and the big chair, and disengaged the key!