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- English Word Desynonymization Definition The act of desynonymizing.
- English Word Desynonymize Definition To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.
- English Word Detach Definition To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
- English Word Detach Definition To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.
- English Word Detach Definition To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.
- English Word Detachable Definition That can be detached.
- English Word Detached Definition of Detach
- English Word Detached Definition Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.
- English Word Detaching Definition of Detach
- English Word Detachment Definition The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
- English Word Detachment Definition That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.
- English Word Detachment Definition Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
- English Word Detail Definition A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
- English Word Detail Definition A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- English Word Detail Definition The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
- English Word Detail Definition To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
- English Word Detail Definition To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
- English Word Detailed Definition of Detail
- English Word Detailer Definition One who details.
- English Word Detailing Definition of Detail
- English Word Detain Definition To keep back or from; to withhold.
- English Word Detain Definition To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
- English Word Detain Definition To hold or keep in custody.
- English Word Detain Definition Detention.
- English Word Detainder Definition A writ. See Detinue.
- English Word Detained Definition of Detain
- English Word Detainer Definition One who detains.
- English Word Detainer Definition The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.
- English Word Detainer Definition A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.
- English Word Detaining Definition of Detain