Detaching
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of detach form-of, gerund, participle, present
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More examples"Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in the pictures of the modern Belgian masters."
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