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/ˌənˈtaNGgəl/,
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untangles, 3rd person singular present; untangling, present participle; untangled, past tense; untangled, past participle;
  1. Free from a tangled or twisted state
    • - fishermen untangle their nets
  2. Make (something complicated or confusing) easier to understand or deal with


  1. extricate: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"
  2. unravel: become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of; "unravel the thread"
  3. (untangled) not tangled
  4. (untangling) unsnarling: the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition
  5. Untangle is a privately held company based in San Mateo, CA, USA. The company provides an open source network gateway for small businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations. Untangle provides multiple gateway applications installed at the edge of a network.
  6. To remove tangles or knots; To remove confusion or mystery
  7. (Untangling) Updating an outline based on changes to external files. Untangling allows changes to be propagated from external files back to the outline. Especially useful when fixing syntax errors outside Leo. For more information, see Untangling @root trees in Leo’s programming reference.