verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a detached garage (= not joined to a house )
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The house benefits from a large detached garage.
detached especially BrE (= not joined to another house )
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It is a modern detached property with five bedrooms.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Her comments were considered especially important since, not being quite so involved with the work, they were perhaps more detached .
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They are bigger, richer, greedier, more detached now.
■ NOUN
group
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After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace.
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Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.
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The Station Chief detached himself from the group .
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The mood somber on the grassy knolls, I stood, feeling like an observer, detached from the group , defeated.
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After a while Harbury and Linda detached themselves from a group and carried their drinks over to join Rain.
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Two vaguely serpentine exters detached themselves from the group .
semi
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We parked in a pleasant street, lined with trees and filled with detached and semi-detached suburban villas.
■ VERB
become
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Rattles develop and pieces of trim become detached .
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Cooley does not become defensive and detached .
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His fingers became fat maggots and detached themselves from his doughnut hands.
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All my resolve during my walks along the Seine to become detached from my family vanished in an instant.
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But power, by the minute, is becoming detached from the public support that gives it meaning.
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A regimental musician who had become detached from his unit, he followed in the wake of the attack as a spectator.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Please detach the last section of this form, fill it in, and return it to us.
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The control unit can be detached from the base.
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The tires on the toy cars may detach and become a hazard to small children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Death, with which they lived so intimately, could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation.
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Eventually, if the body lay undisturbed for long enough, the skin might even detach itself from the body.
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Health care needs to be detached from them and funded from general taxes.
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Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.
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Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes.
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She fiddled around for a while, and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached.