0 present participle of disengage
1 to become physically separated from something, or to make two things become physically separated:
Antidepressant medications appear to have exerted ' bottom-up ' effects by disengaging ventral frontal and limbic regions.
Parent and child may play specific roles in engaging and disengaging their joint coordinated attention.
For example, one could construct a developmental account that sees impairments in magnocellular function underpinning impairments in disengaging attention.
Disengaging a conversational exchange in the absence of a next turn-at-talk.
Similarly, it is found that talk, instead of silence, often followed successful disengaging turns.
Disengaging a conversational exchange at sequence boundary.
This is clear evidence that par ticipants themselves treat what they are doing as disengaging from the prior topic, and as introducing a new and quite different topic.
Police agencies gain nothing and lose much by indignantly disengaging from those they serve for fear of criticism and reprisal, formal or otherwise.
