detangle
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detangle (third-person singular simple present detangles, present participle detangling, simple past and past participle detangled)
- (transitive) To disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 190:
- We know that mycorrhizal fungi form and re-form their connections with plants, tangling, detangling and retangling.