detaching

We will not make our society more civilized by detaching one of our central institutions from its civilizing task.

In personal bonds, detaching-with-love is doing your bit for the war against co-dependence.

That was just an authoritarian way of detaching from others anyway.

And with this benevolent sentiment he stood up, and detaching Darcy's portrait from the wall, thrust it into his capacious pocket.

Figures, three or four of them, were detaching themselves from the mother mass and preceding it.

In detaching such a force, the brigade of cavalry now en route from Washington via Rockville may be taken into account.

She has since avowed, that a desire of detaching me from Venture had a great hand in this arrangement.

Detaching part of his force to pursue the former, Marlborough drove the latter upon the river.