disentwine

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ entwine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪs.ɪnˈtwaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

disentwine (third-person singular simple present disentwines, present participle disentwining, simple past and past participle disentwined)

1. (transitive) To free (someone or something) from being entwined or twisted; to untwine.
   • 1833 (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Lodore. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […] (successor to Henry Colburn), published 1835, →OCLC, page 140:

     To disentwine the tangled skein of thought which was thus presented, was her task by day and night.

Anagrams

• indentwise

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disentwine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)