Disentangle vs Disengage - What's the difference?
disentangle | disengage |
To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot
To unravel a mystery etc
To become free or untangled
(ambitransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5
, Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to. }}
* 1982 , Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
As verbs the difference between disentangle and disengage
is that disentangle is to free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot while disengage is (ambitransitive) to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.As a noun disengage is
(fencing) a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.disentangle
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Verb
(disentangl)- I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
disengage
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Verb
(disengag)- Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
"Shake," prompted Ford.
Arthur did, nervously at first, as if it might turn out to be a fish. Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief. He shook it and shook it.
After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage .
