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untwist

untwist verb: to remove a twist from.

Verb

untwist (third-person singular simple present untwists, present participle untwisting, simple past and past participle untwisted)

  1. (transitive) To remove a twist from.
  2. (intransitive) To become untwisted.

Noun

untwist (plural untwists)

  1. A twist in the opposite direction.

untwist meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

untwist in Tamil

உடை

untwist in Malayalam

disentangle, untwine, unravel
പിരിയഴിക്കുക, ചുറ്റഴിക്കുക, കുരുക്കഴിക്കുക, നൂലാമാല തീർക്കുക, പിണച്ചിലഴിക്കുക, കുരുക്കുനീക്കുക

Forms of untwist

Verb
third-person singular presentuntwists
present participleuntwisting
past participleuntwisted
pastuntwisted
Noun
pluraluntwists

Origin of untwist

From un- + twist.

Words formed from untwist

Questions about untwist

What does untwist mean?
Untwist means to remove a twist from.
What is untwist in Tamil?
Untwist in Tamil is உடை. See Untwist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is untwist?
Untwist can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of untwist?
The past tense of untwist is untwisted.

Words near untwist in the dictionary

  1. untwinned
  2. untwirl
  3. untwirled
  4. untwirling
  5. untwirls
  6. untwist
  7. untwistable
  8. untwisted
  9. untwister
  10. untwisters
  11. untwisting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: untwist (page history and authors); untwist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); untwist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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