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disentwined

disentwined is the simple past and past participle of disentwine.

Meaning of disentwine

Verb

disentwine (third-person singular simple present disentwines, present participle disentwining, simple past and past participle disentwined)

  1. (transitive) To free (someone or something) from being entwined or twisted; to untwine.
    • To disentwine the tangled skein of thought which was thus presented, was her task by day and night.1833 (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Lodore. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […] (successor to Henry Colburn), published 1835, →OCLC, page 140
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to unfree from something complicated

Questions about disentwined

What is disentwined the simple past and past participle of?
Disentwined is the simple past and past participle of disentwine.

Words near disentwined in the dictionary

  1. disentrancement
  2. disentrances
  3. disentrancing
  4. disentropy
  5. disentwine
  6. disentwined
  7. disentwines
  8. disentwining
  9. disenvelop
  10. disenveloped
  11. disenveloping

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