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detangle

detangle verb: to disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).

Verb

detangle (third-person singular simple present detangles, present participle detangling, simple past and past participle detangled)

  1. (transitive) To disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).
    • We know that mycorrhizal fungi form and re-form their connections with plants, tangling, detangling and retangling.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 190

detangle meaning in Bengali

detangle in Bengali

জট খোলা, জট দূর করা

Forms of detangle

third-person singular presentdetangles
present participledetangling
past participledetangled
pastdetangled

Origin of detangle

From de- + tangle.

Words formed from detangle

Questions about detangle

What does detangle mean?
Detangle means to disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).
What is detangle in Bengali?
Detangle in Bengali is জট খোলা, জট দূর করা. See Detangle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is detangle?
Detangle is a verb.
What is the past tense of detangle?
The past tense of detangle is detangled.

Words near detangle in the dictionary

  1. detainingly
  2. detainings
  3. detainment
  4. detainments
  5. detains
  6. detangle
  7. detangled
  8. detangler
  9. detanglers
  10. detangles
  11. detangling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detangle (page history and authors); detangle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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