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disentangling

disentangling is the present participle and gerund 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.

Noun

disentangling (plural disentanglings)

  1. A disentanglement.

Forms of disentangling

pluraldisentanglings

Questions about disentangling

What does disentangling mean?
Disentangling means a disentanglement.
What is disentangling the present participle and gerund of?
Disentangling is the present participle and gerund of disentangle.
What part of speech is disentangling?
Disentangling is a noun.
What is the plural of disentangling?
The plural of disentangling is disentanglings.

Words near disentangling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disentangling (page history and authors); disentangle (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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