Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disentangling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Disentangle \Dis`en*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Disentangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disentangling}.]
1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of
being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced;
to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as,
to disentangle a skein of yarn.

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage
from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to
disembroil; to set free; to separate.

To disentangle truth from error. --Stewart.

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this
labyrinth. --Clarendon.

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal
mixtures. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.

Syn: To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear;
evolve; disengage; separate; detach.

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