verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To free (someone or something) from being entwined or twisted; to untwine. transitive

   "To disentwine the tangled skein of thought which was thus presented, was her task by day and night."

2. 2
   to unfree from something complicated figuratively, transitive

Example

More examples

"To disentwine the tangled skein of thought which was thus presented, was her task by day and night."

Etymology

From dis- + entwine.

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