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Untangle vs Untie - What's the difference?

untangle | untie |

As verbs the difference between untangle and untie

is that untangle is to remove tangles or knots while untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

untangle

English

Verb

(untangl)
  • To remove tangles or knots.
  • With gentle combing, untangle your hair.
  • (by extension) To remove confusion or mystery.
  • It took awhile, but he finally untangled the problem.

    Synonyms

    * disentangle

    Antonyms

    * tangle

    untie

    English

    Verb

  • To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
  • to untie a knot
  • * (rfdate), Waller:
  • Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
  • To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  • * Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
  • Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
  • * (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
  • All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
  • To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  • * (rfdate), Denham:
  • They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
  • To become untied or loosed.
  • Antonyms

    * tie

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