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detangled

detangled is the simple past and past participle of detangle.

Meaning of detangle

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

Questions about detangled

What is detangled the simple past and past participle of?
Detangled is the simple past and past participle of detangle.

Words near detangled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detangled (page history and authors); detangle (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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