Definition of "semidetached" [sem•i•de•tached]

• Attached to something on one side only: a semidetached house. (adjective)

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• "And the five years of her life as an independent, kind of semidetached member of the royal family, I think are fascinating."
• "This 861-square-foot, two-bedroom semidetached house is near a traditional fishing village in Costa Blanca, the coastal area in the province of Alicante in southeast Spain."
• "Perhaps he sensed that if her semidetached status from his company ever evolved into full independence, Dahl might well decide to leave him and go with her, so he engineered the wedge that drove Roald and her apart."