disinvolve
disinvolve verb: to uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
Verb
disinvolve (third-person singular simple present disinvolves, present participle disinvolving, simple past and past participle disinvolved)
- To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More his antidote against Idolatry
- And for thee Creation universal calls aloud To disinvolve the moral world, and give To nature's renovation brighter charms.1745, Edward Young, The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
- To terminate the involvement of.
- Given a variety of urgent and vital global problems requiring attention and co-operation of the super-powers and the world communitiy in their solution, can the super-powers take a decision to disinvolve themselves from the Viet-Nam-Indo-China tangle and to use all their influence with the local...1966, Select Documents on International Affairs, page 123
- Has the author processed his subject in such a way as to exclude, to pacify, to disinvolve the reader?1974, Virgil Grillo, Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz: End in the Beginning, page 56
Examples of disinvolve in a sentence
- Constable and Turner were needed to reassert the potentialities of natural colour and to disinvolve the miracle of light from the good taste of academic tone.2017, Edward Thomas, British Country Life in Autumn and Winter:
- Disinvolve yourself, if you can come to it, disinvolve, dissociate, hold a watching brief.2015, Stevie Smith, Over The Frontier:
Forms of disinvolve
| third-person singular present | disinvolves |
|---|---|
| present participle | disinvolving |
| past participle | disinvolved |
| past | disinvolved |
Origin of disinvolve
From dis- + involve.
Questions about disinvolve
- What does disinvolve mean?
- Disinvolve means to uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- How do you use disinvolve in a sentence?
- Constable and Turner were needed to reassert the potentialities of natural colour and to disinvolve the miracle of light from the good taste of academic tone.
- What part of speech is disinvolve?
- Disinvolve is a verb.
- What is the past tense of disinvolve?
- The past tense of disinvolve is disinvolved.
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