Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Loosing; setting free; detaching.
- adjective See under
Engaging .
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- verb Present participle of
disengage .
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Examples
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If McCain's criteria for having U.S. troops in Iraq is that it's "fine" with him "as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed," how can he be against disengaging from the war ASAP if he becomes President?
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The big push I’ve seen in the last few years in terms of the way many of us are dealing online is a certain set of tactics for disengaging from the crazy.
Posting, Life, Free Book kateelliott 2008
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And those who would be our allies need to buck their ideas up; there’s been too much dilettante faffing about for too long – it’s no wonder trans people are disengaging from the debates.
Will the last trans person to leave feminist Blogdonia please turn off the lights? 2008
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Sharon and Weissglas came up with the idea of disengaging Israel from Gaza, starting with a few settlements.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Sharon and Weissglas came up with the idea of disengaging Israel from Gaza, starting with a few settlements.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Sharon and Weissglas came up with the idea of disengaging Israel from Gaza, starting with a few settlements.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Sharon and Weissglas came up with the idea of disengaging Israel from Gaza, starting with a few settlements.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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It was just about now that I began to conceive the idea of disengaging from the Aisne and moving to a position in the north, for the main purpose of defending the Channel ports and, as a secondary reason, to be in a better position to concert combined action and co-operation with the Navy.
1914 John Denton Pinkstone French 1888
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This sets up a bit of a strawman ( "disengaging") but are we seriously to assume that it is in effect hard to believe ( "even if" = "not that we should take it seriously") the election strongly sent a message in part that the current policy re Iraq is seriously problematic?
Balkinization 2007
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This sets up a bit of a strawman ( "disengaging") but are we seriously to assume that it is in effect hard to believe ( "even if" = "not that we should take it seriously") the election strongly sent a message in part that the current policy re Iraq is seriously problematic?
Balkinization 2007
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