Detachment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETACHMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of detaching
• the state of being objective or aloof
• a group of troops, aircraft, or ships sent away on a separate mission
• a party of people separated from a larger group
• the action or process of detaching; separation
• The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
• That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.
• Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
• avoiding emotional involvement
• the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
• the state of being isolated or detached
• a small unit of troops of special composition
• coming apart

Words related to DETACHMENT

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Words that contain DETACHMENT

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How to use DETACHMENT in a sentence

• The advance guard is a detachment of the main body which precedes and covers it on the march.
• Infantry, commanded a small detachment of troops, which was ordered to accompany me through the Indian country.
• And it is possible that Emily had less to bear, that in her detachment she was protected more than Charlotte from Branwell at his worst.
• A detachment of cavalry hastened to search through the throng of people.
• A detachment of troops was ambushed and badly cut up.
• How often in the past ten years it had done that! He had sat off, with a sort of professional detachment, and studied his own case.
• Cast away that which ye possess, and, on the wings of detachment, soar beyond all created things.
• There was a detachment located in the country at Ormskirk, from which the Battalion drew some of its finest fighting material.
• The Medical Detachment, under command of Major James R.
• Dickerson having charge of the detachment attached to the 1st battalion, Lieutenant James F.
• Captain Carteret was to be on detachment at Enniscar.
• There was also that look of angelic detachment from the things of earth.
• Duncan had an air of apparent detachment, but one eye usually rested on Milly, who was walking with her father and was followed by a laughing group.
• The sergeant was half-way down the ladder, with his detachment at his heels, when the report of a musket was heard and down he dropped with a ball in his leg.
• Besides these larger armaments, colonel Stanwix commanded a smaller detachment for reducing smaller forts, and scouring the banks of the lake Ontario.
• I went up to one of the huts and found in it a very kind and courteous middle-aged lieutenant, who was in charge of a detachment of Indian troops.
• Conscious of an unfamiliar detachment, Miss Evelina settled herself to think.
• I heartily wish a detachment of such divines as Dr Atterbury, Dr.
• The detachment under Sir Jacob Astley, which were of the flower of his men, had been routed at Newburn, and the enemy had possession of two entire counties.
• They had similar orders to ours, but were advised that they would meet our detachment at this ford.
• He went forward boldly now, and, when an hour later he saw a detachment of Union cavalry in a road, he took no measures to avoid them.
• A British detachment from Detroit, advanced near fifty miles south of that place, and fortified themselves on the Miami of the lakes.
• Merindol, who commanded this detachment of the garrison, was first, and being completely taken by surprise was easily dislodged and thrown down into the water below.
• The four uninjured prisoners were now placed in the center of the detachment, and Trent marched his command back to the post-office.

Similar words containing TACHM without suffix ent and without prefix de

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