disentangle
verb (used with or without object)
to free or become free from entanglement; untangle; extricate (often followed byfrom ).
had been disentangling
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past perfect progressiveof disentangle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For three months the seven envoys of Austria, Prussia, Russia, France, Bavaria, Zweibrucken, and Saxony, had been disentangling the threads of the Bavarian succession.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
