Untangle
/ʌnˈtæŋ.ɡəl/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To remove tangles or knots from. transitive
"With gentle combing, untangle your hair."
- 2 become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of wordnet
- 3 To remove confusion or mystery from. broadly, figuratively, transitive
"It took a while, but he finally untangled the problem."
- 4 release from entanglement of difficulty wordnet
Example
More examples"It took Tom ages to untangle his fishing line."
Etymology
From un- + tangle.