Untied vs Untie - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between untied and untie

is that untied is (untie) while untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

is not tied; undone.

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Not tied; undone

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

*:The sack had been left untied , and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the opening and look out.

(head)

(untie)

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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.

* tie