Disentangle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To extricate from entanglement or involvement; free. See Synonyms at extricate.
  • v. To clear up or resolve (a plot, for example); unravel.
  • verb-intransitive. To become free of entanglement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot
  • v. To unravel a mystery etc
  • v. To become free or untangled
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • v. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To free from entanglement; extricate from a state of involvement, disorder, or confusion: as, to disentangle a skein of thread, a mass of cordage, a set of accounts, or the affairs of a bankrupt firm.
  • To loose from that in or by which anything is entangled; extricate from whatever involves, perplexes, embarrasses, or confuses; disengage: as, to disentangle an object from a mass of twisted cord; to disentangle one's self from business, from political affairs, or from the cares and temptations of life.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
  • v. free from involvement or entanglement
  • v. extricate from entanglement
  • v. release from entanglement of difficulty
  • v. separate the tangles of
  • Antonym
    entangle   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    free    discharge    disengage   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    clear    separate    detach    disembarrass    disengage    extricate    loose    evolve    disembroil    untangle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Angle    Wrangell    angle    bangle    dangle    entangle    fangle    jangle    mangle    newfangle