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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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