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• v  release from entanglement of difficulty
• v  become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
• a  not tangled

• In an instant, Amador was at his side, and the two men wearing thick fire gloves untangled the aggressive baby vampire from the net, grabbing it carefully as it squealed .
• Upshot was the News Syndicate, mindful of its contracts, asked Artist Caniff to stop doing special Army strips until the muddle was untangled.
• But the thread that untangled the story was a photograph that Britain's Daily Mirror unearthed of the couple on the web site of a company specializing in relocating foreigners to .

• extricate
• untangle
• disentangle
• disencumber
• unravel
• unknot
• unscramble
• unpick

• ravel
• knot
• tangled

News & Articles

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• Bugs provide new insights into relationships between animals and bacteria
  ( Canadian Institute for Advanced Research ) Scientists have taken a closer look at mealybugs and their nested bacterial helpers and untangled a surprisingly unique and intricate relationship. Their findings provide potential insights into the complex association between humans and the microbes we rely on for our health.
  June 20, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Eddie Jordan in SportingNews.com
  I stand my ground. I thought he got tangled up with LeBron, and LeBron tried to get untangled. And in his method of trying to get untangled, Darius' arm just flew at his chin,Jordan said.
• Gideon Gono in Cape Argus (subscription)
  Gono told the Herald that investigations by the central bank had shown that the cash crisis "was the manifestation of a web that would soon be untangled."
• Mark Frauenfelder in Webware/Cnet (blog)
  We'd like to thank the happy mutants who helped make this major relaunch possible,Frauenfelder wrote. "These folks went under the hood and untangled the mess that Boing Boing's code had snarled into, and created an elegant, powerful system...