Writing English for me has nothing whatsoever to do with England. You have to detach this international language from its land of origin.
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Detach
//dɪˈtæt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "detach" (140 found)
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40 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- отделям verb (to take apart or take off)
- откачам verb (to take apart or take off)
- отцепвам verb (to take apart or take off)
Czech
1 entries- odpojit verb (to take apart or take off)
Estonian
1 entries- eraldama verb (to take apart or take off)
French
1 entries- détacher verb (to take apart or take off)
German
4 entries- ablösen verb (to take apart or take off)
- abtrennen verb (to take apart or take off)
- entfernen verb (to take apart or take off)
- herausnehmen verb (to take apart or take off)
Hungarian
3 entries- elválaszt verb (to take apart or take off)
- leválaszt verb (to take apart or take off)
- szétválaszt verb (to take apart or take off)
Ido
2 entries- des-ligar verb (to take apart or take off)
- detachar verb (to take apart or take off)
Ingrian
1 entries- päästää verb (to take apart or take off)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thám verb (to take apart or take off)
Latin
1 entries- abiungō verb (to take apart or take off)
Māori
4 entries- wehe verb (to take apart or take off)
- wehewehe verb (to take apart or take off)
- wete verb (to take apart or take off)
- whakakaewa verb (to take apart or take off)
Old English
1 entries- ālīesan verb (to take apart or take off)
Old French
2 entries- descupler verb (to take apart or take off)
- deslier verb (to take apart or take off)
Portuguese
1 entries- destacar verb (to take apart or take off)
Romanian
2 entries- a detașa verb (to take apart or take off)
- dezlipi verb (to take apart or take off)
Russian
4 entries- отдели́ть verb (to take apart or take off)
- отделя́ть verb (to take apart or take off)
- отцепи́ть verb (to take apart or take off)
- отцепля́ть verb (to take apart or take off)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- odspojiti verb (to take apart or take off)
Spanish
4 entries- desacoplar verb (to take apart or take off)
- desfijar verb (to take apart or take off)
- despegar verb (to take apart or take off)
- desprender verb (to take apart or take off)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Meditation exercises help me detach for a certain period of time from the material world and connect to the calm of the spiritual world.
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I didn't detach them.
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The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.
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