disentangle
verb (used with or without object)
to free or become free from entanglement; untangle; extricate (often followed byfrom ).
had disentangled
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past perfectof disentangle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In any hesitation of her own she had always gone to Father Francis, and he had disentangled the web for her and made all plain.
From Bebee by Ouida
In the darkness he fell over a chair, and by the time he had disentangled himself and had reached the corridor the safe-blower was gone.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
The deep reverie into which she had fallen in the morning had done her good—it had disentangled thought, and left the heart and judgment clear.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
He had disentangled himself from business, and after the war he felt a profound disinclination to tie the knot again.
From Roderick Hudson by Henry James
Since the day Eleanore had disentangled the cord of his nose glasses from the button of his top coat, the picture of the young girl had been indelibly stamped on his mind.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
