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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)

  1. (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
    • I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
  2. (transitive) 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
  3. (intransitive) 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.

Words near disentangled in the dictionary

  1. disentailing
  2. disentailment
  3. disentailments
  4. disentails
  5. disentangle
  6. disentangled
  7. disentanglement
  8. disentanglements
  9. disentangler
  10. disentanglers
  11. disentangles

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