untangling

Examples

• All

• Religious practice is only preserved in any integrity by seriousness about prayer; and so, if theology is the untangling of the real grammar of religious practice, its subject matter is, humanly and specifically, people who pray.

  Academic text (1995)

• I, I have the sense that untangling all of this would take a very, very long time.

• And I want to begin with the untangling of history and what you said about everything being a product of what came before.

  Robinson Erhardt

• You will instantly feel an untangling of your mind.

  Blog text (14)

• First of all, there was the untangling of chords.

  Blog text (31)

• The creation of a successful email campaign requires the untangling of a complex web of factors, including types of recipients, message content, layout and design, subject line, goals, and metrics.

  Blog text (9)

• The untangling of the cords took longer than I expected, but it was worth it to use my headphones again.

• After a few hours of untangling the wires, we finally set up the sound system for the party.

• The detective focused on the untangling of the complex relationships in the case to find the culprit.

Synonyms

E

extrication

vsuntangling

3 8.2

Freeing someone or something that is stuck

is narrower applying mainly to physical tangles not all rescues

U

undoing

vsuntangling

1 4.6

An action of loosening knots or ribbons that were tied

involves freeing from complex tangles rather than just untying bindings

D

disentanglement

vsuntangling

7.5

Freeing things or people trapped in knots and difficult situations

is the process form rather than a single act

U

unsnarling

vsuntangling

8.1

Removing knots from something like a chain or hair

is broader covering complicated states beyond physical snarls

How Thorough

untangling

1 4.1

to straighten out

167 3.4

to sort out

37 2.8

to neaten

1 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology