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# disentangle

«disentangle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to untangle things that have become knotted or caught up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (disentangles, disentangled, disentangling)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disentangle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disentangle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.