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
Let harmony its chords untwine, Music charms at forty nine.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 by Various
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
“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
Cora untwined herself from Ridgeway and crawled toward the hand-car, left leg in agony.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
These two orders of thought are untwined simultaneously, on parallel lines by Chaucer, that dreamer who had lived so much in real life, that man of action who had dreamed so many dreams.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
"God will bring me safely back to you, dear mother," urged Agnes, gently untwining those loving arms; "Good-by."
From Angel Agnes The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport by Alexander, Charles Wesley
Jerry stared up, his face working horribly, his fingers twining and untwining.
From The Pirate Shark by Arting, Fred J.
Philip nodded--a crimson spot in each cheek, his frail hands twining and untwining as he tried to compose himself.
From Lady Merton, Colonist by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
He sat there, his elbows on the table, his fingers twining and untwining the thick red hair of his beard.
From The Book of All-Power by Wallace, Edgar
I do not ask to see The unveiling of Thy purpose, or the shining Of future light on mysteries untwining; Thy promise-roll is all my own— Thy word is enough for me.
From Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work by Moody, Dwight Lyman
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