Usually means: Separate, clarify, or unravel elements.
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  1. disentangle: Merriam-Webster
  2. disentangle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disentangle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disentangle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disentangle: Vocabulary.com
  6. disentangle: Wordnik
  7. disentangle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disentangle: Wiktionary
  9. disentangle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disentangle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disentangle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disentangle, disentangle: Dictionary.com
  13. disentangle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Disentangle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. disentangle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. disentangle: Rhymezone
  17. disentangle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. disentangle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. disentangle: FreeDictionary.org
  20. disentangle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. disentangle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. disentangle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. disentangle: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become free or untangled.

Similar:
extricate, disembroil, untangle, unsnarl, disencumber, unwind, disinvolve, straighten out, comb, comb out, more...

Opposite:
tangle, knot, snarl

Types:
extricate, unravel, unwind, disengage, more...

Phrases:
disentangle from, unable to disentangle, more...

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    silver,     gray,     white,     light blue,     teal, more...

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Similar:
extricate, disembroil, untangle, unsnarl, disencumber, unwind, disinvolve, straighten out, comb, comb out, more...

Opposite:
tangle, knot, snarl

Types:
extricate, unravel, unwind, disengage, more...

Phrases:
disentangle from, unable to disentangle, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     light blue,     teal, more...



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