untangle
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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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
become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
unravel the thread
Types & categories
- undo hypernym
Related & opposite
- tangle antonym
- disentangler derivation
- separate entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disengage |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | tangle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disentangler |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | separate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | undo |