disentangled
disentangled is the simple past and past participle of disentangle.
Meaning of disentangle
Verb
disentangle (third-person singular simple present disentangles, present participle disentangling, simple past and past participle disentangled)
- To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
- I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
- To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10
- Synonyms:
- unweave
- To become free or untangled.
Questions about disentangled
- What is disentangled the simple past and past participle of?
- Disentangled is the simple past and past participle of disentangle.
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