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.
 2. To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
    To disentangle truth from error.   --Stewart.
    To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.   --Clarendon.
    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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 disentangled
      adj 1: having become freed from entanglement; disengaged [syn: extricated,
              freed]
      2: straightened out [syn: loosened, unsnarled]