Hypertext Webster Gateway: "untwine"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Untwine \Un*twine"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + twine.]
To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted;
to disentangle; to untie.
It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a
nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a
people to the established and the old. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Untwine \Un*twine"\, v. i.
To become untwined. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
untwine
v : undo what has been twined together; "untwine the strings"
[ant: {intertwine}]
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