untwine

Verb

Verb Forms: untwined, untwining, untwines

• To separate twisted or tangled parts.
• undo what has been twined together
  • "untwine the strings"
• To untwist the strands of (something entwined).
• To free (one thing that is entwined with another), disentangle, extricate.
• To become untwisted or disentangled.

Examples

• He had to untwine the letters in his mind to find the anagram hiding within his rack.

Antonyms

twine