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Verb: untangle  ,ún'tang-gul
  1. Free from a complicated or confusing situation
    "I cannot untangle myself from this task";
    - extricate, disentangle, disencumber [archaic], disinvolve [rare], disembroil [archaic]
     
  2. Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
    "untangle the thread";
    - unravel, unknot, unscramble, unpick

Derived forms: untangled, untangles, untangling

Type of: discharge, disengage, free, undo