Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To uncover; unfold or unroll; disentangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
uncover ; tounfold orunroll ; todisentangle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb free from involvement or entanglement
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's hard to disinvolve myself enough from sex to write about it.
Waking up... 2000
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Why were you still invisible? and to what dangers might you not be exposed before you could disinvolve yourself from the mazes of this wilderness?
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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"The SCLC treasurer will voluntarily disinvolve himself with any financial matters ... until further action by the Board of Directors of SCLC," the order said.
daytondailynews.com - News Rhonda Cook 2010
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"The SCLC treasurer will voluntarily disinvolve himself with any financial matters … until further action by the Board of Directors of SCLC," the order said.
ajc.com - News rcook@ajc.com 2010
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"The SCLC treasurer will voluntarily disinvolve himself with any financial matters … until further action by the Board of Directors of SCLC," the order said.
ajc.com - News rcook@ajc.com 2010
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"The SCLC treasurer will voluntarily disinvolve himself with any financial matters ... until further action by the Board of Directors of SCLC," the order said.
daytondailynews.com - News Rhonda Cook 2010
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"The SCLC treasurer will voluntarily disinvolve himself with any financial matters … until further action by the Board of Directors of SCLC," the order said.
ajc.com - News 2010
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To disinvolve the moral world, and give To nature's renovation brighter charms.
The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author 1812
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