Disentangling

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  disentangle \dis`en*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Disentangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disentangling}.]
     1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of
        being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced;
        to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as,
        to disentangle a skein of yarn.


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     2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage
        from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to
        disembroil; to set free; to separate.
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              To disentangle truth from error.      --Stewart.
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              To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this
              labyrinth.                            --Clarendon.
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              A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal
              mixtures.                             --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
  
     Syn: To loose; extricate; disembarrass; disembroil; clear;
          evolve; disengage; separate; detach.
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