Disattach

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To detach. transitive

    "A political result, we may also say aim, of the frumentarian plebiscite of Gaius was to disattach the city populace from its conservative moorings and to enlist it in the service of reform."

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"A political result, we may also say aim, of the frumentarian plebiscite of Gaius was to disattach the city populace from its conservative moorings and to enlist it in the service of reform."

Etymology

From dis- + attach.

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