Uptie vs Untie - What's the difference?
uptie | untie |
To tie up, fasten up.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
*:Her golden lockes she roundly did vptye / In breaded tramels [...].
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.
As verbs the difference between uptie and untie
is that uptie is to tie up, fasten up while untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.uptie
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*untie
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- 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 .