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Untangle   /əntˈæŋgəl/   Listen
Untangle

verb
1.
Release from entanglement of difficulty.  Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate.
2.
Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of.  Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble.






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"Untangle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Roebuck, and I'll produce results all right. I'll break the agreements and cut rates. I'll freeze out the branch roads and our minority stock-holders, I'll keep the books so that all the expert accountants in New York couldn't untangle them. I'll wink at and commit and order committed all the necessary crimes. I don't know why I've been so squeamish, when there were so many penitentiary offenses that I did consent to, and, for that matter, commit, without a ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... faults and follies, Ida had never been a pale shadowy creature, full of complex psychological moods which neither she nor any one else could untangle. She knew whom and what she liked and disliked, and it was not her nature to do things by halves. There had always been a kind of simplicity and straightforwardness even in her wickedness; and she usually seemed ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

... the wailing of sirens now. Fire trucks, repair trucks, and police cars pulled up in front of the house. Everyone in the block turned out to see what had happened. It took the repair men an hour to untangle the wires and fix them. And all the time policemen were going through the crowd, asking questions and writing things down in their notebooks. They were looking rather haggard, ...
— David and the Phoenix • Edward Ormondroyd



Words linked to "Untangle" :   untangling, disencumber, knot, disengage, disunite, divide, extricate, separate, part, undo, ravel, free



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