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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To undo or loosen (a knot or something knotted).
  2. v. To free from something that binds or restrains: untie a horse from a tree.
  3. v. To straighten out (difficulties, for example); resolve.
  4. v. To become untied.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To undo, as a knot.
  2. To undo the fastenings, bands, cords, or wrappings of; loosen and remove the tyings from: as, to unlie a bundle; hence, to let or set loose; dissolve the bonds of; liberate.
  3. To loosen from coils or convolutions.
  4. To resolve; unfold; clear.
  5. To come untied; become loose.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.
  2. v. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  3. v. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  4. v. To become untied or loosed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
  2. v. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  3. v. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  4. v. To become untied or loosed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. undo the ties of
  2. v. cause to become loose

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