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# disentangle

verb (disentangles, disentangled, disentangling)

«disentangle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To disentangle is to untangle things that have become knotted or caught up together, so that they lie free and straight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a person picks out a knotted thread, rope or hair from a tangle, often with great patience; it can also mean to free someone from a trap.

### Examples

- It took me ten minutes to disentangle the knotted kite string. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/#x1)
- Can you disentangle these necklaces? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/#x2)
- The farmer disentangled the fox from the net. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/#x3)
- She tried to disentangle the wool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «disentangle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disentangle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disentangle.html) on Mova free.