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Untangle

//ʌnˈtæŋ.ɡəl// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove tangles or knots from. transitive

    "With gentle combing, untangle your hair."

  2. 2
    become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of wordnet
  3. 3
    To remove confusion or mystery from. broadly, figuratively, transitive

    "It took a while, but he finally untangled the problem."

  4. 4
    release from entanglement of difficulty wordnet

Etymology

From un- + tangle.

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