untwine
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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“To untwine it to one aspect of it diminishes the other, and I don’t want to do that. It’s the totality of it. It’s the gestalt of it.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022
It would be difficult to untwine the system by which we measured much of the past 80 years — but that isn’t really New Zealand’s goal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019
They are two events in his life he will never be able to untwine.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2013
She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Meanwhile, how weirdly and strangely do the threads of human life cross and twine and untwine in this world!
From Nobody by Susan Warner
She untwined herself from the chair and trundled into the kitchen to retrieve a plaque she wanted to show.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
Cora untwined herself from Ridgeway and crawled toward the hand-car, left leg in agony.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“We’ve been clutching each other like a couple of lost children,” Theodora said and untwined her arms from around Eleanor’s neck.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
“But, Lenina . . .” he began protesting; and as she immediately untwined her arms, as she stepped away from him, he thought, for a moment, that she had taken his unspoken hint.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
With a lingering, tender embrace, twilight untwined her nebulous arms from the sable-lustre mantle of night and parted with a promise.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
"Don't give me your advice, Ogilvie," said he, untwining and throwing away the bit of casting-line that had cut his finger.
From Macleod of Dare by William Black
Mademoiselle," persisted Gwendolyn, twining and untwining, "if I do my French fast will you tell me something?
From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates
"Eli, your overcoat is wet," she exclaimed, untwining her arms from his neck.
From The Little Mixer by Lillian Nicholson Shearon
Jerry stared up, his face working horribly, his fingers twining and untwining.
From The Pirate Shark by Fred J. Arting
Yonder there flow, untwining and twining their loops anew!
From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren
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