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untease

untease verb: to disentangle; to tease apart.

Verb

untease (third-person singular simple present unteases, present participle unteasing, simple past and past participle unteased)

  1. To disentangle; to tease apart.
    • My purpose in this article is to untease that tangled web of philosophy and science which constitutes cognitive science.1989, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
    • This study made use of the stochasticity preserved by Monte Carlo methods to untease the different sources of synaptic variability.2002, Kevin M. Franks, A Monte Carlo Model of Synaptic Signaling, page 13

Forms of untease

third-person singular presentunteases
present participleunteasing
past participleunteased
pastunteased

Origin of untease

From un- + tease.

Questions about untease

What does untease mean?
Untease means to disentangle; to tease apart.
What part of speech is untease?
Untease is a verb.
What is the past tense of untease?
The past tense of untease is unteased.

Words near untease in the dictionary

  1. unteams
  2. untearable
  3. untearful
  4. untearfully
  5. unteasable
  6. untease
  7. unteased
  8. unteases
  9. unteasing
  10. untechnical
  11. untechnicality

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