Disentangling

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A disentanglement.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of disentangle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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disinvolveextricateunbraidunsnarluntangleuntangle

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"These ingenious stories of the success of the imperturbable Sherlock Holmes, who had made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet (1887), in detecting crime and disentangling mystery, found a host of imitators."

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