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disengage

noun
/ˌdɪsɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle French désengager ; dis- + engage.

  1. derived from *wedʰ-✻ — “to pledge, redeem a pledge; guarantee, bail”
  2. derived from *wadją✻ — “pledge, guarantee”
  3. derived from *wadjōną✻ — “to pledge, secure”
  4. derived from *an-✻
  5. derived from *anwadjōn✻ — “to pledge”
  6. derived from engagier — “to pledge, engage”
  7. inherited from engagen
  8. prefixed as disengage — “dis + engage”

Definitions

  1. A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry

  2. To release or loosen from something that binds, entangles, holds, or interlocks.

    • With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
    • The eight-cylinder Rolls-Royce diesel engines drive through "Twin Disc" torque converters up to a speed of some 46 m.p.h., when the drive automatically changes to direct coupling and the torque converter is disengaged.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disengage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01disengage02binds03bind04friction05massage06relax07loose08loosen

A definitional loop anchored at disengage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at disengage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA