disentangle
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
release from entanglement of difficulty
I cannot extricate myself from this task
Types & categories
- disengage hypernym
Related & opposite
- unsnarling derivation
Sense 2 verb
extricate from entanglement
Can you disentangle the cord?
Types & categories
- order hypernym
- tease apart hyponym
- ravel hyponym
Related & opposite
- mat antonym
- unsnarling derivation
Sense 3 verb
free from involvement or entanglement
How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?
Types & categories
- discharge hypernym
Related & opposite
- unsnarling derivation
Sense 4 verb
separate the tangles of
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- unsnarling derivation
Sense 5 verb
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
comb your hair before dinner
Types & categories
- neaten hypernym
- slick down hyponym
- fluff hyponym
Related & opposite
- combing derivation
- comb-out derivation
- unsnarling derivation
- comb derivation
- comb derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disengage |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | mat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | order |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tease apart |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ravel |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | discharge |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | undo |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | roll out |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | uncoil |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | combing |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | comb-out |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | comb |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | comb |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | neaten |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | slick down |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | fluff |