untangleverb [ T ]
uk/ʌnˈtæŋ.ɡəl/us/ʌnˈtæŋ.ɡəl/untangle verb [ T ] (KNOTS)
to remove the knots from an untidy mass of string, wire, etc. and separate the different threads
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Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- disestablish
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- drift
- pull sth/sb apart
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- tear 1
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untangle verb [ T ] (PROBLEM)
to make a complicated subject or problem, or its different parts, clear and able to be understood:
It took years to untangle the legal complexities of the case.
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Solving and solutions
- answer
- antidote
- band-aid solution
- be at the bottom of sth idiom
- clear (sth) up
- clue
- conquer
- conquerable
- fall
- iron sth out
- kill or cure idiom
- lateral thinking
- magic wand
- modus vivendi
- palliative
- result
- round
- solution
- talk sth out
- workaround
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