to switch off the control of something:
Disengage
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To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed,involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; toliberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broilsand controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengagethe affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.Milton.Caloric and light must be disengaged during the process. Transl. ofLavoisier.
Disengage meaning & definition 1 of Disengage.
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The act of ending another person's engagement for them, with or without their consent.
Disengage meaning & definition 2 of Disengage.
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Disengage in Fencing. A movement of the blade that passes under the oppositions blade into a different line.
Disengage meaning & definition 3 of Disengage.
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to become physically separated from something, or to make two things become physically separated:
Disengage meaning & definition 4 of Disengage.