different between disengage vs unloose

English

Etymology

From Middle French désengager ; dis- +? engage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s????e?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

disengage (plural disengages)

1. (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry

Verb

disengage (third-person singular simple present disengages, present participle disengaging, simple past and past participle disengaged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, entangles, holds, or interlocks.

   Synonyms: detach, disentangle, free, unfasten

Derived terms

• disengagement

Related terms

• engage

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English unlosen, equivalent to un- +? loose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?lu?s/

Verb

unloose (third-person singular simple present unlooses, present participle unloosing, simple past and past participle unloosed)

1. (transitive) To free (someone or something) from a constraint.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison’d thoughts

     And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.

   • 1717, Laurence Eusden (translator), “The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe” in John Dryden (editor), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109,^[2]

     Thus did the melancholy Tale conclude,

     And a short, silent Interval ensu’d.

     The next in Birth unloos’d her artful Tongue,

     And drew attentive all the Sister-Throng.

   • 1827, Nathaniel Parker Willis, “Extract from a Poem delivered at the departure of the senior class of Yale College, in 1826” in Sketches, Boston: S. G. Goodrich, p. 92,^[3]

     Press on! for it is godlike to unloose

     The spirit, and forget yourself in thought;
2. (transitive) To undo or loosen something that fastens, holds, entangles, or interlocks.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene 1,^[4]

     The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

     Familiar as his garter:

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 1:7,^[5]

     There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

   • 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, London: T. Becket & P.A. Dehondt, Volume 5, Chapter 3, p. 34,^[6]

     Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it,—it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman’s task into another man’s hands.

   • 1900, Bret Harte, “A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s” in From Sand Hill to Pine, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 64,^[7]

     Forgetting his disgust, Brice tore away the shirt and unloosed the belt.

Synonyms

• (free from constraint): release, set free, unleash
• (undo something that fastens): disengage, unfasten, untie

Anagrams

• neo soul, neo-soul, oul ones, oul' ones