disinvolving
disinvolving is the present participle and gerund of disinvolve.
Meaning of disinvolve
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
- 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
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- Disinvolving is the present participle and gerund of disinvolve.
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