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untie


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Untie  \Un*tie"\,  v.  t.  [AS.  unt?gan.  See  1st  {Un-},  and  {Tie}, 
  v.  t.] 
  1.  To  loosen,  as  something  interlaced  or  knotted;  to 
  disengage  the  parts  of  as  to  untie  a  knot. 
 
  Sacharissa's  captive  fain  Would  untie  his  iron 
  chain.  --Waller. 
 
  Her  snakes  untied,  sulphurous  waters  drink.  --Pope. 
 
  2.  To  free  from  fastening  or  from  restraint;  to  let  loose;  to 
  unbind. 
 
  Though  you  untie  the  winds,  and  let  them  fight 
  Against  the  churches.  --Shak. 
 
  All  the  evils  of  an  untied  tongue  we  put  upon  the 
  accounts  of  drunkenness.  --Jer.  Taylor. 
 
  3.  To  resolve;  to  unfold;  to  clear. 
 
  They  quicken  sloth,  perplexities  untie.  --Denham. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Untie  \Un*tie"\,  v.  i. 
  To  become  untied  or  loosed. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  untie 
  v  :  undo  the  ties  of  "They  untied  the  prisoner"  [syn:  {unbrace}, 
  {unlace}]  [ant:  {tie}] 




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