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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But when she had disentangled the truth of what had happened from their mixed and incoherent narrative, she owned that they had done quite right, and could not possibly have done otherwise.
From The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit
It would have surprised Wayland if he had disentangled out of his own weltering thoughts the fact that he had never weighed gain as an argument before Moyese talked.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Broadwood, the instant that he had disentangled himself, faced about, and brought his guns into action.
From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
All the mass of mountains and of clouds, all the sombre chaos of the preceding night had disentangled itself almost suddenly, as under the touch of a magic wand.
From Ramuntcho by Pierre Loti
