untie
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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- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
undo the ties of
They untied the prisoner
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- tie antonym
- unfastener derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause to become loose
undo the shoelace
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- loosening derivation
- untying derivation
- unfastener derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | tie |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unfastener |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | undo |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unloose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unlash |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | loosening |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | untying |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unfastener |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |