Disentangle
[dɪsɪn'tæŋg(ə)l;dɪsen-] or [,dɪsɪn'tæŋɡl]
Definition
(verb.) extricate from entanglement; 'Can you disentangle the cord?'.
Edited by Cheryl--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
(v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Typist: Serena
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Unravel, unfold, untwist.[2]. Extricate, disengage, disembroil, liberate, clear, loose, unloose, free, set free.
Checked by Elton
Definition
v.t. to free from entanglement or disorder: to unravel: to disengage or set free.—n. Disentang′lement.
Editor: Nat
Examples
- How disentangle the passion for equality from the passion of cupidity, when begins the fight for equality of possessions? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The different cards are arranged to move past each other in opposite directions, so as to catch and disentangle the fibres. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It remains to disentangle them from the context in which they have been referred to, and discuss explicitly their nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He cannot disentangle the arts from the virtues--at least he is always arguing from one to the other. Plato. The Republic.
- Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Here we cannot attempt to disentangle his schemes, much less to judge him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I could not disentangle all that was about me, and I felt as if the blame and the shame were all in me, and the visitation had come down. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Certainly I am disentangled of some difficulties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The two factors of truth in the conception may easily be disentangled from association with the false context which perverts them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checked by Lilith