UNTWINE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
v.

To become untwined. Milton.


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