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untwine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb untwine has 1 sense
- untwine(v = verb.contact) Array - undo what has been twined together; "untwine the strings" is one way to straighten, straighten out
Antonym: twine
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CIDE DICTIONARY
untwine, v. t. [1st pref. un- + twine.].
To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. [1913 Webster]
"It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old."
[1913 Webster]
untwine, v. i.
To become untwined. Milton. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
untwine
Evolution
VB evolve, unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel, untangle, disentangle, develop.
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