Entwined vs Untwine - What's the difference?

entwined | untwine |

As verbs the difference between entwined and untwine

is that entwined is past tense of entwine while untwine is to untwist the strands of something entwined.

entwined

English

Verb

(head)

(entwine)

entwine

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(entwin)

To twist or twine around something (or one another).

* Shelley

entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks

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Usage notes

Particularly used in attributive form entwined. Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower (term) may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.

Synonyms

* (twine around one another) (l)

untwine

English

Verb

(untwin)

To untwist the strands of something entwined

To disentangle

* Sir W. Hamilton

To untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old.