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disentwining

disentwining is the present participle and gerund 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 disentwining

What is disentwining the present participle and gerund of?
Disentwining is the present participle and gerund of disentwine.

Words near disentwining in the dictionary

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

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