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detangles

detangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 detangles

What is detangles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Detangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detangle.

Words near detangles in the dictionary

  1. detains
  2. detangle
  3. detangled
  4. detangler
  5. detanglers
  6. detangles
  7. detangling
  8. detank
  9. detanked
  10. detanking
  11. detanks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detangles (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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