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disentangle

[dis-en-tang-guhl]

Origin

verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -gled, -gling.

to free or become free from entanglement; untangle; extricate (often followed by from).

Origin:
1590–1600; dis-¹ + entangle

Related forms

dis·en·tan·gle·ment, noun

dis·en·tan·gler, noun

Synonyms
disembarrass, disencumber.

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disentangle (ˌdɪsɪnˈtæŋɡ^əl)

—vb
1.	to release or become free from entanglement or confusion
2.	(tr) to unravel or work out

disen'tanglement

—n

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disentangle

1590s, from dis- + entangle. Related: Disentangled.

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"The artist, he imagined, standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams—"a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty." To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success: the artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and "re-embody" it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist."

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