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
Now another has caught them up, and the chord of my life is being twisted, and I cannot wrench it free and untwine it again—I can't.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
“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
“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
As he untwined the masses, it fell over the long bib, over the high chair, down till it swept the floor, in one unbroken flood of light.
From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Lily Dougall
It was for this reason he had ordered the untwining of the creeper that was clinging above.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
"Eli, your overcoat is wet," she exclaimed, untwining her arms from his neck.
From The Little Mixer by Lillian Nicholson Shearon
But his eyes were wide open, feverish, almost glaring; he was twining and untwining his fingers and muttering excitedly.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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
Yonder there flow, untwining and twining their loops anew!
From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren
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