Word Finder - disentangle

definition

To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.

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I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.

definition

To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.

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To become free or untangled.

Alex tried to disentangle Destiny, but she held on tight and started to whine.

It also would disentangle religion from cosmology and formal philosophy.

There's no point drafting convoluted legalese to be sure of precision if people then can't disentangle the meaning.

This took a lot of painstaking work, as in some cases I had to carefully disentangle stems before tying them in again.

There's no point drafting convoluted legalese to be sure of precision if people then ca n't disentangle the meaning.

The concern of the essays in Featherstone's volume is to disentangle the various threads that such questions invariably conflate.

Nothing is more remarkable in the history of discovery than the manner in which Ampere seized upon the right clue which enabled him to disentangle the complicated phenomena of electrodynamics and to deduce them all as a consequence of one simple fundamental law, which occupies in electrodynamics the position of the Newtonian law of gravitation in physical astronomy.

The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them.

It is difficult, indeed, if not impracticable, to disentangle the effects which should be respectively attributed to influences so closely related to each other; but, of the three, prices alone tend to sufficient uniformity in their course in different countries to justify a supposition that they are in some way connected with a phenomenon so widely diffused as that of the decline in marriage and fertility.

In the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries it is hard, if not impossible, to disentangle the history of Germany from that of the rest of the Frankish empire of which it formed part; in fact it is not until the time of the dissensions between the sons of the emperor Louis I.

It is the business of scientific interpretation to disentangle the factors which contribute to the joint-products.

On the basis of his results, as they have been scrutinized by scholars like Schiirer and Geffcken, it is possible to disentangle some of the different strata with a certain degree of confidence.

On the other hand, the Prussians were new to the battlefield, and the reaction after the elation of victory was intense; moreover, if what happened at Hiihnerwasser affords a guide, the staff would have required some days to disentangle the units which had fought and to assign them fresh objectives.

In the domain of history we have first the old Sienese chronicles, which down to the 14th century are so confused that it is almost impossible to disentangle truth from fiction or even to decide the personality of the various authors.