to unattach
- verb
- Can you unattach it from the wall?
Examples
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Bone marrow cells in vivo live unattached in a three-dimensional connective tissue framework.
Fiction book (1996) -
Make sure to unattach the hose from the faucet before winter.
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And now I will magically unattach them.
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The sweat bead reaches the bottom of Ed's chin, trembles for a second, then unattaches itself.
Fiction book (1998) -
She'd been talking with another woman at the bar who was as short and pale as she was tall and weathered, but it looked like one of those conversations that unattached people have in bars when they're looking for someone else to talk with.
Fiction book (1994) -
To clean the shelves properly, you need to unattach the brackets first.
Synonyms
To move something or someone away from a place
To move apart or stop being together
To separate something so it is no longer joined, for example remove a cable or turn off power
To become loose and fall off
Make a knot or lace loose by undoing it
To stop being part of or connected to something
To take something off from where it is attached
To take something off where it hangs, like a coat or necklace
To make a piece come away from something by hitting or bending it
To come apart from something it is connected to
To force something or someone out of a place where they are stuck
To open something by undoing a button or zipper
To disconnect two things that are joined, often machine parts
To take off something that is attached to another thing, like a trailer or bicycle
Disconnect parts that were joined so they work independently
To free something by untying ropes or cords
To come away from something it was stuck to
To make something less tight or set something free
To release something that is tied or fastened so it can move away
Separate things that are attached to each other
To become loose and move away from a surface
To remove something that is stuck with glue
To separate parts so they are no longer connected
To free something that is stuck by removing what blocks it so it can move again
Take something off a wall or surface
To stop a machine part from getting power so it no longer moves
Antonyms
How Attached
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unattach is formed from un- ('reverse' or 'not') and attach ('to fasten or join'), so it literally means to take something off or separate it from what it was fixed to.