Dictionary entry

Disentangle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis′en‐tan″gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disentangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disentangling (?).] 1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.

To disentangle truth from error. Stewart.

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon.

A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Syn. — To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear; evolve; disengage; separate; detach.