Thesaurus: untwine

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1. v. t. To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie.
2. v. i. To become untwined.
3. v. undo what has been twined together
4. 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. To become untwined. Milton.
5. To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; todisentangle; to untie.It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation tountwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established andthe old. Sir W. Hamilton.
6. v. undo what has been twined together