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disengage from

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disengage (oneself) from someone or something
to detach oneself from someone or something; to untangle oneself from someone or something. I wanted to disengage myself from the person I was talking to and go home. We disengaged from the argument.

disengage something from something

to detach something from something. Sally disengaged the locking mechanism from the cupboard door and peeked in. The coupling was disengaged from the boxcar, and the car separated and rolled away.


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and her contributors focus on the influence of ethnicity, gender and sexuality on students' decisions to disengage from school life, concentrating on the marginalized.
It is a choice that many more people are making and when professionals disengage from their work we all pay the price.
It means that you don't react at all - that you completely disengage from the interaction as soon as Douglas gets angry.
 
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