Untangle

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  • transitive verb. To free from a tangle; disentangle. synonym: extricate.
  • transitive verb. To straighten out (something puzzling or complicated); clarify or resolve.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To loose from tangles or intricacy; disentangle; hence, to free from embarrassment, doubt, or uncertainty; resolve; clear up; explain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To remove tangles or knots.
  • verb. To remove confusion or mystery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. release from entanglement of difficulty
  • verb. become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
  • Word Usage
    "My reticence and my use of the word "untangle" is based on this:"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    tangle  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disengage  free  undo  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Angle  Wrangell  angle  bangle  dangle  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form