Word.ws English Dictionary

detangling

detangling is the present participle and gerund 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 detangling

What is detangling the present participle and gerund of?
Detangling is the present participle and gerund of detangle.

Words near detangling in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: detangling (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “detangling.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/detangling. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.