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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)
- (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- to untie a knot
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
- (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (page 151)
- After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!
- 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (page 151)
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted
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to free from fastening or from restraint
to resolve
to become untied or loosed
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