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disentangledis‧en‧tan‧gle /ˌdɪsənˈtæŋɡəl/ verb [transitive]   VERB TABLEdisentangle |
| Present | I, you, we, they | disentangle | | he, she, it | disentangles | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disentangled | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disentangled | | he, she, it | has disentangled | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disentangled | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disentangle | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disentangled |
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| Present | I | am disentangling | | he, she, it | is disentangling | | you, we, they | are disentangling | | Past | I, he, she, it | was disentangling | | you, we, they | were disentangling | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disentangling | | he, she, it | has been disentangling | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disentangling | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disentangling | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disentangling |
- Investigators had to disentangle Maxwell's complicated financial affairs.
- The balls of wool were all mixed up, and I couldn't disentangle them.
- As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues.
- However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed.
- In politics, it is seldom easy to disentangle what is right from what is handy.
- It is hard to disentangle propaganda from fantasy.
- One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.
- Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought.
- The reasons for these variations are difficult to disentangle.
to untie something► undo to remove the string or rope from something so that it is no longer held together: · I can't undo the string!· She undid the ribbon and let her hair fall over her shoulders. ► untie to remove or unfasten the string or rope that joins one thing to another: · Someone had untied the boat and it had floated away.· It was several hours before anyone found me and untied me. ► disentangle to untie a group of wires, ropes etc that have all been mixed together: · The balls of wool were all mixed up, and I couldn't disentangle them. VERB► try· It came open at once, and she leaned in, trying to disentangle the unconscious woman from her seatbelt.· Our concern here is not to try to disentangle New Liberalism from Fabian socialist thought.· Let's try to disentangle and clarify some of them.· The next few hours were spent in a daze while Lucy tried to disentangle the confusion in her bewildered mind. ► disentangle yourself (from somebody/something)- The President was eager to disentangle himself from the scandal.
- And then he disentangled himself from the last uniformed peer and reached Hardin.
- Blearily, I disentangled myself from Richard and grabbed the phone, checking the clock.
- Bobbie, still looking dazed, began to disentangle herself from the foliage.
- Jean Alesi is said to be trying to disentangle himself from his 1993 Ferrari contract in order to make himself available to Williams.
- Night brightened sharply, as if the moon had just disentangled itself from cloud.
- One arm disentangled itself from the covers, her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt.
- The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past.
1to separate different ideas or pieces of information that have become confused together:  It’s very difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in what she’s saying.2disentangle yourself (from somebody/something) to escape from a difficult situation that you are involved in: She had just disentangled herself from a long relationship.3to remove knots from ropes, strings etc that have become twisted or tied together4to separate something from the things that are twisted around it |