unengage

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ engage.

Verb

unengage (third-person singular simple present unengages, present participle unengaging, simple past and past participle unengaged)

  1. (transitive) To rid of a marriage engagement.
    • 2013, Cathy Williams, The Notorious Gabriel Diaz, page 131:
      Well, now she had to unengage herself, and she wasn't looking forward to the process.
    • 2018, Piper Rayne, Engaged to the EMT:
      How the heck do you unengage the girl you're dating so that one day you can ask her again...probably, maybe? None of these thoughts occurred to me when I fell down on bended knee the first time.