Definition of untangle in English:

untangle

verbʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)lˌənˈtæŋɡəl

[with object]

1Free from a tangled or twisted state.
解开纠结
fishermen untangled their nets
渔夫解开缠绕的鱼网。
Example sentencesExamples
- Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.
- Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes.
- Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
- Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering, so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it, removing, where possible, just the oldest wood.
- He twisted his hands to untangle them, then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass.
- I would watch the dark, tanned bodies of fishermen, untangling their seine, getting ready for the toils of the day.
- A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam.
- While progress is good, and the scarf will be completed, I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting.
- The place was deserted, save for myriad squirrels, but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings, so I did my bit for community service and untangled them.
- At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head, untangling the fishing line, scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface.
- Instead, engineers developed ‘splicing,’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time.
- Initially, the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her.
- It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim.
- A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood.
- This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river.
- She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.
- This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence.
- The bones were sort of tangled, so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers.
Synonyms
disentangle, unravel, unsnarl, unjumble, straighten out, sort out, untwist, untwine, untie, unknot, undo
1. 1.1 Make (something complicated or confusing) easier to understand or deal with.
  （对复杂难解的事物）整顿，清理；使头绪清楚
  he knew he'd have to untangle a financial mess and somehow restore investor confidence
  Example sentencesExamples
  A liner note by the executive producer untangles some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment.
  The use of a highly textured piercing sound whose layers cannot be easily untangled makes his painful memory visceral for the viewer.
  A complementary line of research, meanwhile, is untangling the mechanisms for predicting what is nasty.
  When you have watched men of the cloth ministering to the Drumcree marchers, and watched the Orange battalions at prayer, it is less easy to untangle religion from the emotions involved.
  Produced by Paper Birds, this is an impressionistic and melancholy hour of physical theatre that tangles together and untangles the lives of six young women who all passed through a single room.
  In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off.
  He valiantly discards this safety net, daring readers to untangle the clues ahead of the police.
  One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems.
  For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable.
  If Alam's job as hard-nosed, aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction, Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology.
  We should therefore take heart from what has largely been an unsensational, sensitive and informed approach not just to reporting events but to untangling the complex political and diplomatic background.
  In an effort to untangle the issues, SEE Magazine spoke to an independent researcher and consultant on health promotion and health policy.
  I lingered on in the car park, untangling emotions, uncertain what I wanted to do next.
  The conundrum facing anyone wishing to untangle the events of the last three months is that when all the smoke clears, there is no one else the British or Unionists can do business with but Sinn Fein.
  Orin Kerr has a long post that tries to begin to untangle the difficult legal threads of constitutional and statutory law.
  The news is that young people are taking the lead in untangling the issues, as the hip hop generation runs its first political campaign.
  In addition, since economic growth is central to progress the two concepts cannot be easily untangled.
  It appears that as a result of this ‘cross-contamination’, the two lists have arrived at a point where there are variations on each other and it is probably impossible to untangle them.
  They must not only unravel the problems of their own lives, they must untangle the mystery of his death.
  The Cave untangles this paradox through its dogged insistence on an ancient, if seldom realized, human quality: generosity.
  Synonyms
  solve, find the/an answer to, answer, find a/the solution to, resolve, work out, puzzle out, fathom, understand, find the key to, find the answer to, decipher, clear up, make easier to understand, make simpler, make plainer, clarify, make more comprehensible, make more intelligible, remove the complexities from, straighten out, sort out, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, disentangle, unfold, piece together, simplify, explain, expound, elucidate, illuminate
  informal figure out, suss out, crack

Definition of untangle in US English:

untangle

verbˌənˈtaNGɡəlˌənˈtæŋɡəl

[with object]

1Free from a tangled or twisted state.
解开纠结
fishermen untangle their nets
渔夫解开缠绕的鱼网。
Example sentencesExamples
- At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head, untangling the fishing line, scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface.
- A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam.
- Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering, so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it, removing, where possible, just the oldest wood.
- It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim.
- Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.
- The bones were sort of tangled, so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers.
- This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river.
- This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence.
- A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood.
- The place was deserted, save for myriad squirrels, but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings, so I did my bit for community service and untangled them.
- Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes.
- Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
- He twisted his hands to untangle them, then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass.
- I would watch the dark, tanned bodies of fishermen, untangling their seine, getting ready for the toils of the day.
- While progress is good, and the scarf will be completed, I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting.
- Instead, engineers developed ‘splicing,’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time.
- Initially, the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her.
- She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.
Synonyms
disentangle, unravel, unsnarl, unjumble, straighten out, sort out, untwist, untwine, untie, unknot, undo
1. 1.1 Make (something complicated or confusing) easier to understand or deal with.
  （对复杂难解的事物）整顿，清理；使头绪清楚
  Example sentencesExamples
  In addition, since economic growth is central to progress the two concepts cannot be easily untangled.
  Orin Kerr has a long post that tries to begin to untangle the difficult legal threads of constitutional and statutory law.
  For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable.
  In an effort to untangle the issues, SEE Magazine spoke to an independent researcher and consultant on health promotion and health policy.
  The conundrum facing anyone wishing to untangle the events of the last three months is that when all the smoke clears, there is no one else the British or Unionists can do business with but Sinn Fein.
  If Alam's job as hard-nosed, aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction, Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology.
  In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off.
  We should therefore take heart from what has largely been an unsensational, sensitive and informed approach not just to reporting events but to untangling the complex political and diplomatic background.
  When you have watched men of the cloth ministering to the Drumcree marchers, and watched the Orange battalions at prayer, it is less easy to untangle religion from the emotions involved.
  The Cave untangles this paradox through its dogged insistence on an ancient, if seldom realized, human quality: generosity.
  Produced by Paper Birds, this is an impressionistic and melancholy hour of physical theatre that tangles together and untangles the lives of six young women who all passed through a single room.
  A complementary line of research, meanwhile, is untangling the mechanisms for predicting what is nasty.
  He valiantly discards this safety net, daring readers to untangle the clues ahead of the police.
  One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems.
  The news is that young people are taking the lead in untangling the issues, as the hip hop generation runs its first political campaign.
  They must not only unravel the problems of their own lives, they must untangle the mystery of his death.
  I lingered on in the car park, untangling emotions, uncertain what I wanted to do next.
  It appears that as a result of this ‘cross-contamination’, the two lists have arrived at a point where there are variations on each other and it is probably impossible to untangle them.
  A liner note by the executive producer untangles some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment.
  The use of a highly textured piercing sound whose layers cannot be easily untangled makes his painful memory visceral for the viewer.
  Synonyms
  solve, find an answer to, find the answer to, answer, find a solution to, find the solution to, resolve, work out, puzzle out, fathom, understand, find the key to, decipher, clear up, make easier to understand, make simpler, make plainer, clarify, make more comprehensible, make more intelligible, remove the complexities from, straighten out, sort out, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, disentangle, unfold, piece together, simplify, explain, expound, elucidate, illuminate

词汇	untangle
释义	Definition of untangle in English: untangle verbʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)lˌənˈtæŋɡəl [with object] 1Free from a tangled or twisted state. 解开纠结 fishermen untangled their nets 渔夫解开缠绕的鱼网。 Example sentencesExamples Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots. Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes. Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant. Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering, so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it, removing, where possible, just the oldest wood. He twisted his hands to untangle them, then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass. I would watch the dark, tanned bodies of fishermen, untangling their seine, getting ready for the toils of the day. A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam. While progress is good, and the scarf will be completed, I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting. The place was deserted, save for myriad squirrels, but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings, so I did my bit for community service and untangled them. At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head, untangling the fishing line, scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface. Instead, engineers developed ‘splicing,’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time. Initially, the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her. It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim. A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood. This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river. She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress. This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence. The bones were sort of tangled, so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers. Synonyms disentangle, unravel, unsnarl, unjumble, straighten out, sort out, untwist, untwine, untie, unknot, undo 1.1 Make (something complicated or confusing) easier to understand or deal with. （对复杂难解的事物）整顿，清理；使头绪清楚 he knew he'd have to untangle a financial mess and somehow restore investor confidence Example sentencesExamples A liner note by the executive producer untangles some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment. The use of a highly textured piercing sound whose layers cannot be easily untangled makes his painful memory visceral for the viewer. A complementary line of research, meanwhile, is untangling the mechanisms for predicting what is nasty. When you have watched men of the cloth ministering to the Drumcree marchers, and watched the Orange battalions at prayer, it is less easy to untangle religion from the emotions involved. Produced by Paper Birds, this is an impressionistic and melancholy hour of physical theatre that tangles together and untangles the lives of six young women who all passed through a single room. In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off. He valiantly discards this safety net, daring readers to untangle the clues ahead of the police. One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems. For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable. If Alam's job as hard-nosed, aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction, Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology. We should therefore take heart from what has largely been an unsensational, sensitive and informed approach not just to reporting events but to untangling the complex political and diplomatic background. In an effort to untangle the issues, SEE Magazine spoke to an independent researcher and consultant on health promotion and health policy. I lingered on in the car park, untangling emotions, uncertain what I wanted to do next. The conundrum facing anyone wishing to untangle the events of the last three months is that when all the smoke clears, there is no one else the British or Unionists can do business with but Sinn Fein. Orin Kerr has a long post that tries to begin to untangle the difficult legal threads of constitutional and statutory law. The news is that young people are taking the lead in untangling the issues, as the hip hop generation runs its first political campaign. In addition, since economic growth is central to progress the two concepts cannot be easily untangled. It appears that as a result of this ‘cross-contamination’, the two lists have arrived at a point where there are variations on each other and it is probably impossible to untangle them. They must not only unravel the problems of their own lives, they must untangle the mystery of his death. The Cave untangles this paradox through its dogged insistence on an ancient, if seldom realized, human quality: generosity. Synonyms solve, find the/an answer to, answer, find a/the solution to, resolve, work out, puzzle out, fathom, understand, find the key to, find the answer to, decipher, clear up, make easier to understand, make simpler, make plainer, clarify, make more comprehensible, make more intelligible, remove the complexities from, straighten out, sort out, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, disentangle, unfold, piece together, simplify, explain, expound, elucidate, illuminate informal figure out, suss out, crack Definition of untangle in US English: untangle verbˌənˈtaNGɡəlˌənˈtæŋɡəl [with object] 1Free from a tangled or twisted state. 解开纠结 fishermen untangle their nets 渔夫解开缠绕的鱼网。 Example sentencesExamples At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head, untangling the fishing line, scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface. A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam. Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering, so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it, removing, where possible, just the oldest wood. It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim. Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots. The bones were sort of tangled, so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers. This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river. This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence. A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood. The place was deserted, save for myriad squirrels, but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings, so I did my bit for community service and untangled them. Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes. Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant. He twisted his hands to untangle them, then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass. I would watch the dark, tanned bodies of fishermen, untangling their seine, getting ready for the toils of the day. While progress is good, and the scarf will be completed, I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting. Instead, engineers developed ‘splicing,’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time. Initially, the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her. She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress. Synonyms disentangle, unravel, unsnarl, unjumble, straighten out, sort out, untwist, untwine, untie, unknot, undo 1.1 Make (something complicated or confusing) easier to understand or deal with. （对复杂难解的事物）整顿，清理；使头绪清楚 Example sentencesExamples In addition, since economic growth is central to progress the two concepts cannot be easily untangled. Orin Kerr has a long post that tries to begin to untangle the difficult legal threads of constitutional and statutory law. For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable. In an effort to untangle the issues, SEE Magazine spoke to an independent researcher and consultant on health promotion and health policy. The conundrum facing anyone wishing to untangle the events of the last three months is that when all the smoke clears, there is no one else the British or Unionists can do business with but Sinn Fein. If Alam's job as hard-nosed, aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction, Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology. In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off. We should therefore take heart from what has largely been an unsensational, sensitive and informed approach not just to reporting events but to untangling the complex political and diplomatic background. When you have watched men of the cloth ministering to the Drumcree marchers, and watched the Orange battalions at prayer, it is less easy to untangle religion from the emotions involved. The Cave untangles this paradox through its dogged insistence on an ancient, if seldom realized, human quality: generosity. Produced by Paper Birds, this is an impressionistic and melancholy hour of physical theatre that tangles together and untangles the lives of six young women who all passed through a single room. A complementary line of research, meanwhile, is untangling the mechanisms for predicting what is nasty. He valiantly discards this safety net, daring readers to untangle the clues ahead of the police. One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems. The news is that young people are taking the lead in untangling the issues, as the hip hop generation runs its first political campaign. They must not only unravel the problems of their own lives, they must untangle the mystery of his death. I lingered on in the car park, untangling emotions, uncertain what I wanted to do next. It appears that as a result of this ‘cross-contamination’, the two lists have arrived at a point where there are variations on each other and it is probably impossible to untangle them. A liner note by the executive producer untangles some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment. The use of a highly textured piercing sound whose layers cannot be easily untangled makes his painful memory visceral for the viewer. Synonyms solve, find an answer to, find the answer to, answer, find a solution to, find the solution to, resolve, work out, puzzle out, fathom, understand, find the key to, decipher, clear up, make easier to understand, make simpler, make plainer, clarify, make more comprehensible, make more intelligible, remove the complexities from, straighten out, sort out, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unravel, disentangle, unfold, piece together, simplify, explain, expound, elucidate, illuminate
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