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Definition of Detaches
1. detach [v] - See also: detach
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detaches
Literary usage of Detaches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... —detaches the army of Portugal to the Bidassoa—Retreats with the army of the
centre and the army of the south to Pampeluna—Wellington detaches Graham ..."
2. The History of England by Tobias George Smollett, David Hume (1841)
"He detaches the Duke of Savoy from the Confederacy.— Naval Transactions.—Proceedings
in the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland.—Zeal of the English Commons ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"... it brushes its body witli its paws, when the air detaches itself anil forms
a bubble under tin- leaf. The Fie. 5. ..."
4. The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces by John Marshall (1805)
"Greene appointed to the command of the southern army....Arrives in camp....detaches
Morgan over the Catawba....Battle of the Cow- pens. ..."
5. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"1 A common complaint against the comparative method is that it detaches the
cultural phenomenon from the organic whole of which it forms a part and thereby ..."
6. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"Proceedings of Virginia General Assembly—Amount to Nothing—Clinton detaches
Phillips to Virginia—Governor Jefferson's Letters to President of ..."
7. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1906)
"current in passing heats, dilates, and detaches the little bubbles which constitute
this adherent atmosphere, and restores to the tube the minimum quantity ..."
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