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To free from a tangled or twisted state
“As he struggled to disentangle the rope, we saw a wave break over the dinghy, followed by a huge swell.”
To set free, especially from entanglement or difficulty
“They are looking at ways to disentangle him from this situation.”
To untie or unfasten something tangled
“The Naked Ape's face was bloody and purple, lips bloated, and one eye puffed out as it tried to disentangle the chains around its neck.”
To unravel or make sense of a tricky, problematic or complicated issue
“Let us try to disentangle this thorny issue and to find reasonable solutions that might be acceptable to both scholars and musicians.”
To understand by thinking carefully about
To untangle or arrange (the hair) by drawing a comb through it
To knock or force out of position
To simplify something (by removing the complexities from)
To break something down into its component parts, typically for analysis
To explain something cryptic or foreign
To neaten or tidy up something that is messy or disorganized
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