Antonyms for disentangle


Grammar : Verb
Spell : dis-en-tang-guhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɪs ɛnˈtæŋ gəl


Definition of disentangle

Origin :
  • 1590s; see dis- + entangle. Related: Disentangled; disentangling.
  • verb unwind, disconnect; solve
Example sentences :
  • Yes; he has come over to disentangle the mystery about the diamonds.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • He cannot disentangle the arts from the virtues—at least he is always arguing from one to the other.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • The student of this day finds it difficult to disentangle the varied accounts.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
  • It was impossible to disentangle one's activity from its debasing contacts.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • So I have tried to disentangle it, and give it here in a simpler form.
  • Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton
  • It is hard to disentangle the influence of one event from that exerted by another.
  • Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope
  • From every mesh in the social web, he can disentangle a grace.
  • Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • And, kneeling down, she began to disentangle a fly, imprisoned in a cobweb.
  • Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy
  • That was a problem which Fanny set herself to disentangle in her own particular way.
  • Extract from : « To Love » by Margaret Peterson
  • But to get it I had to disentangle Algernon first, and I had no hand available.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 » by Various

Synonyms for disentangle

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