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
Its action can only then become effective when the actual tactical pursuit—i.e., with cold steel—ceases, the combatants have disentangled themselves, and the strategic pursuit sets in.
From Cavalry in Future Wars by Charles Sydney Goldman
I have puzzled over Knox’s narrative again and again, and hope that I have disentangled the knotted and slippery thread.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
If Pascal had taken action in the matter, if he had gone to the public prosecutor's office and the chamber of notaries, he would have disentangled the matter long before.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
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
