Un·twine v. t. To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie.
It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Un·twine, v. i. To become untwined.
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untwine
v : undo what has been twined together; "untwine the strings"
[ant: intertwine]