UNTANGLE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for UNTANGLE?

Need another word that means the same as “untangle”? Find 44 synonyms and 30 related words for “untangle” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Untangle” are: disencumber, disentangle, extricate, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, straighten out, sort out, untwist, untwine, untie, undo, solve, find an answer to, find the answer to, answer, find a solution to, find the solution to, resolve, work out, puzzle out, fathom, understand, find the key to, decipher, clear up, make easier to understand, make simpler, make plainer, clarify, make more comprehensible, make more intelligible, remove the complexities from, get to the bottom of, make head or tail of, unfold, piece together, simplify, explain, expound, elucidate, illuminate

Untangle as a Verb

Definitions of "Untangle" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “untangle” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Free from a tangled or twisted state.
• Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of.
• Make (something complicated or confusing) easier to understand or deal with.
• Release from entanglement of difficulty.

Synonyms of "Untangle" as a verb (44 Words)

answer	Give the correct answer or solution to. She didn t want to answer.
clarify	Make clear and (more) comprehensible. Clarify the butter.
clear up	Yield as a net profit.
decipher	Read with difficulty. Visual signals help us decipher what is being communicated.
disencumber	Free from or relieve of an encumbrance. The sect claims to disencumber adherents of the untoward effects of past traumas.
disentangle	Free from involvement or entanglement. How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs.
elucidate	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter.
explain	Make (an idea or situation) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts. This would explain why so many adult children still live with their parents.
expound	Explain the meaning of (a literary or doctrinal work. He was expounding a powerful argument.
extricate	Free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty. He was trying to extricate himself from official duties.
fathom	Measure the depth of (water. An attempt to fathom the ocean.
find a solution to	Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.
find an answer to	Perceive or be contemporaneous with.
find the answer to	Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
find the key to	Get or find back; recover the use of.
find the solution to	Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.
get to the bottom of	Go or come after and bring or take back.
illuminate	Decorate (a page or letter in a manuscript) by hand with gold, silver, or coloured designs. A flash of lightning illuminated the house.
make easier to understand	Add up to.
make head or tail of	Engage in.
make more comprehensible	Appear to begin an activity.
make more intelligible	Develop into.
make plainer	Gather and light the materials for.
make simpler	Perform or carry out.
piece together	Repair by adding pieces.
puzzle out	Be a mystery or bewildering to.
remove the complexities from	Go away or leave.
resolve	Cause to go into a solution. Endoscopic biliary drainage can rapidly resolve jaundice.
simplify	Make (something) simpler or easier to do or understand. This move will simplify our lives.
solve	Find the solution. A murder investigation that has never been solved.
sort out	Examine in order to test suitability.
straighten out	Get up from a sitting or slouching position.
understand	Be understanding of. She did not understand her husband.
undo	Cancel or reverse the effects or results of (a previous action or measure. You can frequently undo the error if you notice it in time.
unfold	Develop or come to a promising stage. The white flowers were just starting to unfold.
unknot	Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of. His shoulders unknotted.
unpick	Undo the sewing of. I unpicked the seams of his trousers.
unravel	Investigate and solve or explain (something complicated or puzzling. Unravel the thread.
unscramble	Make intelligible. Viewers use these decoders to unscramble the signal.
unsnarl	Extricate from entanglement. He helped her unsnarl her muddled views.
untie	Cause to become loose. They untied the prisoner.
untwine	Make or become unwound or untwisted. Robyn untwined her fingers.
untwist	Cause to become untwisted. He untwisted the wire and straightened it out.
work out	Have and exert influence or effect.

Usage Examples of "Untangle" as a verb

• Fishermen untangled their nets.
• He knew he'd have to untangle a financial mess and somehow restore investor confidence.

Associations of "Untangle" (30 Words)

acquit	Discharge (a duty or responsibility. They acquitted themselves of their charge with vigilance.
comb	A short curved type of comb worn by women to hold the hair in place or as an ornament. Police combed the area for the murder weapon.
disengage	Become free. In neutral the gears disengage.
disentangle	Remove knots or tangles from (wool, rope, or hair. It was difficult to disentangle fact from fiction.
disgorge	Remove the sediment from (a sparkling wine) after fermentation. They were made to disgorge all the profits made from the record.
distinguish	Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense. It was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes.
evict	Expel or eject without recourse to legal process. A single mother and her children have been evicted from their home.
exit	Leave a particular situation. Declarer must cash his top spades and exit with 2.
extricate	Release from entanglement of difficulty. He was trying to extricate himself from official duties.
exude	Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities. Slime exudes from the fungus.
free	Free or remove obstruction from. Free admission.
knot	Make a carpet or other decorative item with knots. Some days the vessel logged 12 knots.
latch	Fasten with a latch. She latched the door carefully.
loose	Make loose or looser. There is too much loose talk about the situation.
loosely	In a way that is not firmly or tightly fixed or held together. His hands lay loosely.
loosen	Become relaxed or less tight. The stiffness in his shoulders had loosened.
outlet	A place of business for retailing goods. An outlet store.
release	A handle or catch that releases part of a mechanism. The plant releases a gas.
secrete	(of a cell, gland, or organ) produce and discharge (a substance. Insulin is secreted in response to rising levels of glucose in the blood.
solve	Find the solution. Solve an equation.
spill	Liquid that is spilled. My backpack split spilling my clothes and books onto the floor.
trap	A device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters. The exam was full of trap questions.
undo	Cancel (the last command executed by a computer. You can frequently undo the error if you notice it in time.
unfasten	Open the fastening of; undo (something. The dress unfastened easily.
unknot	Release or untie the knot or knots in. He swiftly unknotted his tie.
unravel	(of an intricate process, system, or arrangement) disintegrate or be destroyed. His painstaking diplomacy of the last eight months could quickly unravel.
unscramble	Make intelligible. But how do we unscramble our feelings.
untie	Cause to become loose. They untied the prisoner.
unwrap	Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret. Unwrap the evidence in the murder case.
withdraw	Withdraw from active participation. For the cocaine user it is possible to withdraw without medication.