untwine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb undo what has been twined together
    • untwine the strings

WordNet

Un*twine" transitive verb
Etymology
1st pref. un- + twine.
Definitions
  1. 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" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To become untwined. Milton.

Webster 1913