Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To untwine or become untwined.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from the state of being twined or twisted; untwine; untwist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To free from being entwined or twisted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To free from being
entwined ortwisted ;untwine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Norman gathered the boy up, and as soon as he could disentwine his little arms from about his neck, turned him toward Keith.
Gordon Keith Thomas Nelson Page 1887
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We still have here to disentwine or disentangle his own from the weeds of glorious and of other than glorious feature with which Fletcher has thought fit to interweave them; even in the close of the last scene of all we can say to a line, to a letter, where Shakespeare ends and Fletcher begins.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Stung with irritation, and a sense of disgrace and ridicule and pitifulness in one, Ammiani, after a struggle, ceased the attempt to disentwine her arms, and dragged her clinging to him.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Stung with irritation, and a sense of disgrace and ridicule and pitifulness in one, Ammiani, after a struggle, ceased the attempt to disentwine her arms, and dragged her clinging to him.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Stung with irritation, and a sense of disgrace and ridicule and pitifulness in one, Ammiani, after a struggle, ceased the attempt to disentwine her arms, and dragged her clinging to him.
Vittoria — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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It is a thread of pure white light that one might disentwine from the tumultuary richness of Goethe's nature.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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(it is absurd; but if I could disentwine you from my soul in that sense), only see my own will, and good (not in your will and good, as I now see them and shall ever see) ... should you say I did love you then?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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Or ought I, if I could, to add one more proof to the Greek proverb 'that the half is greater than the whole' -- and only love you for myself (it is absurd; but if I _could_ disentwine you from my soul in that sense), only see my own will, and good (not in _your_ will and good, as I now see them and shall ever see) ... should you say I _did_ love you then?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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