Detach
Leave
Leave verb - To cause to remain behind.
Common collocations
| people | detach people | leave people |
| room | detach room | leave room |
| characters | detach characters | leave characters |
| head | detach head | leave head |
Both words in one sentence
- After their first attempt fails, Houji decides to ram the Deka Wing Robo into the meteor's core and orders Ban to detach his machine and leave.
Source: More Hero Than Thou - And, worse, type 3s (the spider/bat ones that detach and start fluttering around on their own after their host is killed for the second time) take two grenades by default; one to make them leave their Ganado, and a second to kill them.
Source: Demonic Spiders / Resident Evil -
The Maiale (Italian for "pig") was a long-ranged but slow-moving torpedo with a detachable warhead that is supposed to be steered in an enemy harbour by two frogmen, who then detach the warhead, place it on the hull of an enemy warship and then leave before they explode and sink the ship.
Source: Crazy Enough to Work
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