disentangle
pronunciation
How to pronounce disentangle in British English:
UK [ˌdɪsɪnˈtæŋgl]
How to pronounce disentangle in American English:
US [ˌdɪsɛnˈtæŋɡəl]
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- Verb:
- release from entanglement of difficulty
- extricate from entanglement
- free from involvement or entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
Word Origin
- disentangle (v.)
- 1590s; see dis- + entangle. Related: Disentangled; disentangling.
Antonym
Example
- 1. It is hard to disentangle military from civilian uses of space .
- 2. So let us disentangle , and focus on , the first of these only .
- 3. It is notoriously difficult to disentangle cyclical and structural trends in productivity growth .
- 4. This has been mingled with riskier , trading-related activities in ways that are difficult to disentangle .
- 5. It is hard , when it comes to this mercurial president , to disentangle conviction from opportunism .