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disentangles

disentangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 disentangles

What is disentangles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disentangles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disentangle.

Words near disentangles in the dictionary

  1. disentangled
  2. disentanglement
  3. disentanglements
  4. disentangler
  5. disentanglers
  6. disentangles
  7. disentangling
  8. disentanglings
  9. disenter
  10. disenterred
  11. disenterring

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