disentangle

Etymology

dis- + entangle

verb

  1. (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
    I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
  2. (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
    This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle. 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10
  3. (intransitive) To become free or untangled.

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