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untwine


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Untwine  \Un*twine"\,  v.  t.  [1st  pref.  un-  +  twine.] 
  To  untwist;  to  separate,  as  that  which  is  twined  or  twisted; 
  to  disentangle;  to  untie. 
 
  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  --Sir  W. 
  Hamilton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Untwine  \Un*twine"\,  v.  i. 
  To  become  untwined.  --Milton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  untwine 
  v  :  undo  what  has  been  twined  together;  "untwine  the  strings" 
  [ant:  {intertwine}] 




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