Disentangle: alternatives and connections

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

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To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a…

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To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a s…

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See Schlich.

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To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.

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To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

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An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

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To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

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To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.

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To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

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To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.

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To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.

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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

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To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

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To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

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