Untangle: alternatives and connections

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

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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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

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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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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 free from knots; to untie.

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To pick out; to undo by picking.

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

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