| detach |
cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment" come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
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| detached |
degage: showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases" used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage" not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
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| detached retina |
retinal detachment: visual impairment resulting from the retina becoming separated from the choroid in the back of the eye; treated by photocoagulation
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| deteriorate |
become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" devolve: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
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| detoxicate |
detoxify: remove poison from; "detoxify the soil"
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