Disinvolve

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. transitive

    "And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties"

  2. 2
    free from involvement or entanglement wordnet
  3. 3
    To terminate the involvement of.

    "Given a variety of urgent and vital global problems requiring attention and co-operation of the super-powers and the world communitiy in their solution, can the super-powers take a decision to disinvolve themselves from the Viet-Nam-Indo-China tangle and to use all their influence with the local parties concerned to facilitate such disinvolvement?"

Synonyms

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break loosebreak outclarifyclearclear upcut loose

Example

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"And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties"

Etymology

From dis- + involve.

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