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disenfranchise |
disenfranchised |
disenfranchisement |
disengage |
disengaged |
disengagement
| disentangle
| disentangled
| disentanglement
| disentangler
| disenthrone
disengagement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun disengagement has 2 senses
- disengagement(n = noun.act) detachment - the act of releasing from an attachment or connection; Array is a kind of separation
- disengagement(n = noun.act) fallback, pullout - to break off a military action with an enemy; Array is a kind of retreat
Derived forms verb disengage3, verb disengage1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
disengagement, n.
1 a the act of disengaging. b an instance of this.
2 freedom from ties; detachment.
3 the dissolution of an engagement to marry.
4 ease of manner or behaviour.
5 Fencing = DISENGAGE.
1 a the act of disengaging. b an instance of this.
2 freedom from ties; detachment.
3 the dissolution of an engagement to marry.
4 ease of manner or behaviour.
5 Fencing = DISENGAGE.
THESAURUS
disengagement
abstraction, alienation, breaking out, clearing, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disburdening, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disembarrassment, disembroilment, disencumbrance, disentanglement, disinvolvement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dislodgment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, extrication, fallback, freeing, incoherence, isolation, luxation, parting, partition, pullback, pullout, reculade, releasing, removal, retirement, retreat, segmentation, separation, separatism, subdivision, subtraction, uncluttering, unhampering, unknotting, unraveling, unscrambling, unsnarling, untangling, withdrawal, withdrawment, zoningROGET THESAURUS
disengagement
Disjunction
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.Liberation
N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.
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