detach

1. 1.

   cause to become detached or separated; take off

   “detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it”

   Antonymsattach

   Broaderdisconnect

   Narrowerbreakunbindunhook
2. 2.

   separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment

   “detach a regiment”

   Broaderseparate

   military

3. 3.

   come to be detached

   “His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery”

   Synonymscome offcome away

   Antonymsattach

   Broaderseparate

   Narrowerblow offcut offunsolderfall off

Other forms of detach

past tense

detached·

present participle

detaching·

third person

detaches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about detach

What does detach mean?

detach means "cause to become detached or separated; take off". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in detach?

detach has 2 syllables: det-ach. The stress falls on "det". In IPA it is /ˈdɪˌtætʃ/.

What is another word for detach?

Close synonyms include come off, come away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of detach?

The recorded antonyms are attach, attach.

Is detach a common word?

detach is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with detach?

1 word rhymes with detach. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.