disengage
verb🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disengage | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ |
| he / she / it disengages | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪz/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪz/ |
| past simple disengaged | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ |
| past participle disengaged | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ |
| -ing form disengaging | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] (formal)
to free somebody/something from the person or thing that is holding them or it; to become free （使）脱离，松开；解脱 - disengage yourself (from somebody/something)
She gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son. 她轻轻地放下怀中熟睡的儿子。 🔊🔊 - (figurative)
They wished to disengage themselves from these policies. 他们希望能摆脱这些政策的束缚。 🔊🔊 - disengage (something/somebody) (from something/somebody)
to disengage the clutch (= when driving a car) （开车时）松开离合器 We saw the booster rockets disengage and fall into the sea. 我们看到火箭助推器脱落后坠入大海。 🔊🔊
- disengage yourself (from somebody/something)
- [intransitive, transitive] disengage (something) (specialist)
if an army disengages or somebody disengages it, it stops fighting and moves away （使）停止交战，脱离接触 compare engage