disentangle
verb (disentangles, disentangled, disentangling)
Everyday
To disentangle is to untangle things that have become knotted or caught up together, so that they lie free and straight. tree →
In the lessons
in tales, a person picks out a knotted thread, rope or hair from a tangle, often with great patience; it can also mean to free someone from a trap.
Examples
- It took me ten minutes to disentangle the knotted kite string. tree →
- Can you disentangle these necklaces? tree →
- The farmer disentangled the fox from the net. tree →
- She tried to disentangle the wool. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «disentangle» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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