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Definition of detaching : of Detach

Synonyms:

loosening, diverging, releasing, unbinding, unfastening, dispersing

disbarring, extraditing, excommunicating, banishing, cordoning, expatriating, cloistering, evicting, deporting, exiling, ostracizing, eliminating, rejecting, isolating, blacklisting, expelling, ejecting, extirpating, blackballing, secluding, screening, ousting, sequestering, excluding, closeting, boycotting, confining, removing

axing, slicing, disassembling, unfixing, unhinging, amputating, bisecting, incising, ripping, ungluing, estranging, disintegrating, paring, cutting, disaffiliating, dissecting

doling, evanescing, breaking up, diffusing, dissolving, diffracting, distributing, disordering, disbursing, radiating, dislocating, refracting, scattering, evaporating

disengaging, uncoupling, alienating, disassociating, severing, divorcing, halving, dismantling, rupturing, disuniting, segregating, disconnecting, excising, disjoining, breaking, insulating, fragmenting, partitioning, rending, separating, parting, dissociating, splitting, cleaving, dividing, sundering

Usage examples:

• " I will give you a better one, sir," said she, detaching one from her bouquet, and handing it to him. - "The Fortunes Of Glencore", Charles James Lever.
• Detaching Massena to the Piave, where the Austrian division of Lusignan were in observation, he himself determined to charge the Archduke in front. - "The History of Napoleon Buonaparte", John Gibson Lockhart.
• Hearing the singing, one of the officers looks around, and detaching a patrol enters the ruined house with the file of men, the body of soldiers marching on. - "The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes", Thomas Hardy.