disengage

The tiny red button on the left corner of my desk is to engage/disengage the sub woofer.

In person I disengage from and avoid people who speak and act as you write, and my social circles tend to do likewise.

It'll still be a long, uphill battle to convince these voters that it'll be better to disengage from the drug war completely.

Many people forget that the quote hinges on the word "small" and then use that as an excuse to disengage their brain when it comes to basic things.

The best people, when they see what's happening, tend to disengage a bit and start thinking about other opportunities.

Engaging in a wild HN thread, full of well meaning but varied techy suggestions/speculation might not be the best approach right now. Have some friends sift through it for good information and disengage.

Every single person on airbnb wants to open a hotel, but they frankly disengage from the formal process, likely for valid reasons.

If we can engage them with programming as opposed to further disengage them with math, I'm all for it. Anything that hastens the realization that learning is your own responsibility would pay great dividends to the students.

Perhaps the idea is to disengage delicate circuitry from long potentially antenna like circuits.

I probably should have chosen a better word than responsibility seeing as it was more a comment aimed at the apparent lack of capacity to adequately disengage from unhealthy situations a lot of adults seem to exhibit.