UNTWINE

untwine|untwist. Untwine, or Untwist, v.t. to separate things involved

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Un‐twine″ (?), v. t. [[1st pref. un- + twine.]] 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.