disentangle

/'disin'tæɳgl/
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disentangle

She carefully uses a comb to disentangle her long hair.

Definition

  1. Verb (transitive):

    • To free something from tangles or complications: To separate and straighten out something that is twisted, knotted, or intertwined.
    • To free someone or something from a difficult, complicated, or restrictive situation: To remove or release from involvement, entanglement, or a complex state.

  2. Verb (intransitive):

    • To become free from tangles or complications: To come apart or become straightened out from a tangled state.
Usage Examples

  • Verb (transitive):

    • It took her an hour to disentangle the knots from the old fishing net.
    • The therapist helped him disentangle his feelings of guilt from the actual events.
    • The first step is to disentangle the facts from the rumors.

  • Verb (intransitive):

    • With patience, the snarled yarn will slowly disentangle.
    • The political alliances began to disentangle after the treaty was signed.
Advanced Usage

  • "to disentangle oneself from something": To deliberately free yourself from a complicated, restrictive, or undesirable situation or relationship.

    • He sought legal advice to disentangle himself from the business partnership.

  • Used in abstract or figurative contexts: Often applied to complex ideas, arguments, or emotions.

    • Her book attempts to disentangle the myth from the historical truth.
Variants and Related Words

  • Disentanglement (noun): The act or process of disentangling.

    • The disentanglement of the company's finances was a complex task.

  • Entangle (verb): The opposite action; to twist together or involve in a complicated situation.

Synonyms
  • Untangle: To undo tangles (very close in meaning, often interchangeable).
  • Unravel: To separate threads; to solve or explain something complicated.
  • Extricate: To free from a constraint or difficulty (emphasizes removal from entanglement).
  • Unsnarl: To remove snarls or tangles.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Disentangle" itself is not commonly used with particles to form phrasal verbs. The action is typically expressed by the verb alone or with the preposition "from.")

Related Idioms
  • "To separate the wheat from the chaff": This idiom relates to the figurative sense of disentangling, meaning to distinguish valuable things from worthless ones.
  • "To sort out": A common phrasal verb with a similar meaning of resolving a complicated situation, though it implies more organization.
disentangle

She carefully uses a comb to disentangle her long hair.

Verb
  1. smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
    • comb your hair before dinner
    • comb the wool
  2. separate the tangles of
  3. free from involvement or entanglement
    • How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?
  4. extricate from entanglement
    • Can you disentangle the cord?
  5. release from entanglement of difficulty
    • I cannot extricate myself from this task

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