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Disentangle and Untangle Definitions

Disentangle

To extricate from entanglement or involvement; free.

Untangle

To free from a tangle; disentangle.

Disentangle

To clear up or resolve (a plot, for example); unravel.

Untangle

To straighten out (something puzzling or complicated); clarify or resolve
The accountant was unable to untangle the company's finances.

Disentangle

To become free of entanglement.
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Untangle

(transitive) To remove tangles or knots from.
With gentle combing, untangle your hair.

Disentangle

(transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.

Untangle

To remove confusion or mystery from.
It took a while, but he finally untangled the problem.

Disentangle

(transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.

Untangle

To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.
Untangle but this cruel chain.
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Disentangle

(intransitive) To become free or untangled.

Untangle

Release from entanglement of difficulty;
I cannot extricate myself from this task

Disentangle

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

Untangle

Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of;
The sweater unravelled

Disentangle

To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
To disentangle truth from error.
To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.
A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.

Disentangle

Release from entanglement of difficulty;
I cannot extricate myself from this task

Disentangle

Extricate from entanglement;
Can you disentangle the cord?

Disentangle

Free from involvement or entanglement;
How can I disentangle myself from her personal affiars?

Disentangle

Separate the tangles of

Disentangle

Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb;
Comb your hair before dinner
Comb the wool

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