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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
detach
v
  1. cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"
    Antonym(s): attach
  2. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"
  3. come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
    Synonym(s): detach, come off, come away
    Antonym(s): attach
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Detach \De*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Detached}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Detaching}.] [F. d[82]tacher (cf. It. distaccare,
      staccare); pref. d[82] (L. dis) + the root found also in E.
      attach. See {Attach}, and cf. {Staccato}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. 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.
  
      Syn: To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin;
               withdraw; draw off. See {Detail}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Detach \De*tach"\, v. i.
      To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to
      disengage.
  
               [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still
               heights.                                                --Tennyson.
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