disentangling
Sorting out snarls
Disentangling is the process of separating things that have become twisted, knotted, or confused together.
You might spend an hour disentangling Christmas lights or fishing line.
The word applies equally to abstract matters: disentangling fact from fiction, disentangling the causes of the financial crisis.
The work implies patience—whatever got tangled took time to become so.
Releasing from entrapment
- liberatingSetting free from constraint
- releasingAllowing to escape
- detachingUnfastening from attachment
- untyingLoosening a fastened cord
loosening · unbinding · separating · disengaging · decoupling · unraveling · unknotting · unwinding
Process of coming undone
- sortingArranging into sequence
- analyzingExamining in detail
- dissectingMethodically cutting to examine
- deconstructingBreaking into constituent elements
parsing · decoding · demystifying · elucidating · interpreting · unpacking · distinguishing · differentiating
extricating
Releasing from entrapment
- liberatingSetting free from constraint
- releasingAllowing to escape
- detachingUnfastening from attachment
untying · loosening · unbinding · separating · disengaging · decoupling · unraveling · unknotting · unwinding · untwisting
unraveling
Process of coming undone
- sortingArranging into sequence
- analyzingExamining in detail
- dissectingMethodically cutting to examine
deconstructing · parsing · decoding · demystifying · elucidating · interpreting · unpacking · distinguishing · differentiating · resolving
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- descramblingunscrambling, rearranging, reordering, word puzzles, letter sorting
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Catching in a snarl
tangling · knotting · snarling · entwining · intertwining
disentanglingcomplicating
Making less straightforward
confusing · muddling · obfuscating · convoluting · obscuring
disentanglingentangling
Catching in a snarl
enmeshing · embroiling · involving · ensnaring · implicating
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