释义 |
untangleun‧tan‧gle /ˌʌnˈtæŋɡəl/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEuntangle |
Present | I, you, we, they | untangle | | he, she, it | untangles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | untangled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have untangled | | he, she, it | has untangled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had untangled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will untangle | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have untangled |
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Present | I | am untangling | | he, she, it | is untangling | | you, we, they | are untangling | Past | I, he, she, it | was untangling | | you, we, they | were untangling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been untangling | | he, she, it | has been untangling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been untangling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be untangling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been untangling |
- And he lacked the equipment with which to untangle an immensely complex jealousy.
- As the creator of the software, it has a leg up in figuring out how to untangle it.
- Firemen eventually managed to untangle the frightened child from the bars by prising them apart.
- I sorted the orange nylon lines out and did some tying, untangling line from line, knot from knot.
- Robin Penfold untangles this intricate £500 million business.
- They're trying to untangle a snarl-up in editing.
1to separate pieces of string, wire etc that are twisted together2to make something less complicated: The research attempts to untangle some of these issues. |