DISENGAGE Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

disengage

verb

ˌdis-in-ˈgāj

Definition of disengage

as in to liberate

to set free from entanglement or difficulty sought to disengage myself from the embarrassing situation

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Recent Examples of disengage Without that balance, decisions slow down, ownership declines and strong employees disengage. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 The students disengaged when a school staff member approached. — Eric Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 With an automatic transmission, the engine is never disengaged from the wheels in drive. — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2026 Vicki disengaging is par for the course at this point — and speaking of par, the women arrive at the country club to practice their golf swings and deliver enough material to fill an episode. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for disengage

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengage

Verb

And deuterium nuclei contain a neutron that can be liberated by a neutrino and then detected, regardless of the type of neutrino.

— Doug Cowen, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
The Sun in your sign trines liberating Uranus in your adventurous 9th house, encouraging you to explore a new subject, destination, belief, or direction.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of liberate

Verb

Google said in its release that its new model is already being used internally to optimize memory at Google’s data centers, freeing up hundreds of terabytes of memory without buying additional hardware.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Larkin has been fairly vocal about his frustrations in the Motor City, and Barkov's $10 million coming off the books could free up the space to make a move for the American center.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of free

Verb

Ballard was unconscious at the scene of the crash in Topeka and had to be extricated from his vehicle, a 2024 Ford F-150 pickup truck.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
However, each side holds that the Yemeni civil war has now entered a new phase from which neither side looks eager to extricate itself.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of extricate

Verb

Hospital staff were working to save Pike's life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of the drug that the state uses to execute prisoners, her lawyers wrote in a Friday filing in Davidson County Chancery Court.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
California’s plan to save coastal homes from El Niño could end up killing beaches.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of save

Verb

One disadvantage is the seven-year holding period for participants to redeem their units.

— Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
To redeem the offer, open the Account section of the Epicurious app and present your active subscription to a Salt & Straw team member in store and sign up for Salt and Straw's (free) loyalty program via their app.

— Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of redeem

Verb

Pawlikowski’s mother and father, also named Zula and Wiktor, whose unmanageable love had kept them tangled and disentangled for decades, took their own lives in 1989, as the Cold War that had cast its chill upon their time was beginning to thaw.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
His remarks escalated a confrontation over New York’s efforts to disentangle local police from federal immigration enforcement.

— María Luisa Paúl, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of disentangle

Verb

Mogwai, who would make their debut the year after Beat was released and with whom Bowery Electric would share a bill, would crouch in similarly unassuming and tense postures and use them to spring out and scare the bejeezus out of people.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Never Enough, released in June 2025, is Turnstile’s fourth album and the follow-up to their 2021 breakthrough Glow On.

— Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of release

Verb

Two people died and 11 crew members were rescued, Romanian authorities said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
The 14-year-old girl who officials say gave birth to her father’s child on a California roadside has been rescued after an Amber Alert issued last month, Monterey County officials confirmed Sunday evening.

— Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026