untwine

IPA: ʌntwˈaɪn

(transitive) To untwist the strands of (something entwined).
(transitive) To free (one thing that is entwined with another), disentangle, extricate.
(intransitive) To become untwisted or disentangled.

Examples of "untwine" in Sentences

They started to untwine -- much quicker than the night before.
That man was out of his truck faster than I could untwine my arms.
He didn't move, didn't do anything that might make Liat untwine her fingers from his.
Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in such a way as constantly to encounter him again.
“Feeling comfortable?” she asked with some irony, and he started to untwine his hand from hers, but she trapped it in her grasp.
Five, ten, twenty meters, I struggle to untie the rope, to find the nodule that will untwine the knot, but my chafed, useless hands can grip nothing.
He liked the scent and the taste of her, he liked the weight of her breasts, and he wanted very much to untwine that long braid and get his fingers in her hair.
He felt her legs untwine themselves from about his and somehow found the energy to lift himself off her and draw her against him before closing his eyes and sinking into sleep.
He could not have moved, had he attempted to do so, although somewhere deep down inside of him he felt that it was his duty to untwine those clinging arms and somehow to account for the appalling situation.
She heard his call and responded with wingéd feet, arriving upon the scene just as Eleanor Allen, Petty's bosom friend, had sprung to her side, and while in reality striving to untwine Petty's clinging arms seemed also to be in the act of embracing the French teacher.