Untie vs Retie - What's the difference?
untie | retie |
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before.
As verbs the difference between untie and retie
is that untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of while retie is to tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before.untie
English
Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
Antonyms
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*retie
English
Verb
- She stopped walking for a moment to retie her shoe.