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UNTANGLING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition

Synonyms:

disentanglement; extrication; unsnarling; untangling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("untangling" is a kind of...):

freeing; liberation; release (the act of liberating someone or something)

Derivation:

untangle (release from entanglement of difficulty)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb untangle

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