untangle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb release from entanglement of difficulty
    disencumber; extricate; disentangle.
    • I cannot extricate myself from this task
  2. verb become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
    unpick; unravel; unknot; unscramble.
    • unravel the thread

WordNet

Un*tan"gle transitive verb
Etymology
1st pref. un- + tangle.
Definitions
  1. To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.
    Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.

Webster 1913