disentangle
verb (used with or without object)
to free or become free from entanglement; untangle; extricate (often followed byfrom ).
have disentangled
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present perfectof disentangle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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No studies have disentangled the impact of these two possibilities, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
It would have been far easier to have disentangled the line, but Bob Dimsted was a learned fisher, and he had laid down the law.
From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Frank Dadd
These angels are spiritual and merciful powers, and in one sense the angels are those sanctified souls who have disentangled themselves from the world of possession and are confirmed with the powers of the Kingdom.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
They are hidden under embarrassment and irony; and those psychologists who have disentangled them talk of them as very strange, barbaric and secretive things.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
A corps of expert accountants could not have disentangled those crabbed, criss-crossed figures; no solver of puzzles could have unravelled the mystery of those strange hieroglyphics.
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
