Home › Words › D › disentwinedisentwine/dɪs.ɪnˈtwaɪn/disentwine means to free (someone or something) from being entwined or twisted; to untwine.disentwine is pronounced /dɪs.ɪnˈtwaɪn/.EtymologyFrom dis- + entwine.verbTo free (someone or something) from being entwined or twisted; to untwine.e.g.“To disentwine the tangled skein of thought which was thus presented, was her task by day and night.” — 1833 (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Lodore. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […] (successor to Henry Colburn), published 1835, →OCLC, page 140:to unfree from something complicatedDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.disentangle 81% match — To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot. vs disentwine →extricate 76% match — To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle. vs disentwine →untwirl 73% match — To untwist; to undo. vs disentwine →disentanglement 72% match — Removal of, or extrication from, twists, tangles, complications or confusion. vs disentwine →untie 72% match — To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. vs disentwine →unwreathe 71% match — To untwist, uncoil, or untwine (something wreathed). vs disentwine →disentangling 71% match — A disentanglement. vs disentwine →untangle 70% match — To remove tangles or knots from. vs disentwine →