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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To loosen or separate (something twisted) by turning in the opposite direction; unwind.
  • intransitive verb To become untwisted.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A twist in the opposite direction.
  • To separate and open, as threads twisted; turn back from being twisted. Figuratively, to disentangle; solve: as, to untwist a riddle.
  • To become separate and loose or straight from having been twisted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine.
  • transitive verb To untie; to open; to disentangle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Remove a twist (from)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cause to become untwisted

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