disengage

Other forms of disengage

past tense

disengaged·

present participle

disengaging·

third person

disengages·

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 disengage

What does disengage mean?

disengage means "release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disengage?

disengage has 3 syllables: di-sen-gage. The stress falls on "gage". In IPA it is /dɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/.

What is another word for disengage?

Close synonyms include withdraw, free. 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 disengage?

The recorded antonyms are engage, engage.

Is disengage a common word?

disengage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 disengage?

3 words rhyme with disengage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.