untwine

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To untwist the strands of (something entwined). transitive
    — The rope must be then untwined and the middle of each strand laid across the top and stitched down along the pencil line, half the length falling on one side, half on the other.
  2. To free (one thing that is entwined with another), disentangle, extricate. transitive
    — Woe to the revolutionist who is not himself a creature of the revolution! If he anticipate, he is lost; for it requires, what no individual can supply, 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.
  3. To become untwisted or disentangled. intransitive
    — As the tangled mass of men untwined, following the blast of the whistle, Sage heard Stone calling in his ear […]

词形变化

untwines present,singular,third-person untwining participle,present untwined participle,past untwined past

词源

From un- + twine.
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