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• v  undo the ties of
  They untied the prisoner
• v  cause to become loose
• a  not tied
• a  with laces not tied
• s  not bound by shackles and chains

• In the late-November, or ear-nipping and climactic stage of college football, only two major teams were still unbeaten and untied.
• She untied the rubber dinghy from the stern and then, according to Noguchi, fell from the Splendour into the 63 F water, bruising her left cheek as she tumbled overboard.
• A study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences last year found that for every two couples who got married in Beijing, another untied the knot.

• untie
• unbrace
• unlace
• undo
• loosen
• unfastened
• unlaced
• unchained
• unfettered
• unshackled

• tie
• tied
• laced

News & Articles

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• Meet the Women's Soccer Incoming Class: Gianna Geil
  Gianna Geil is one of nine Tigers who will join the program for the fall of 2013. The Princeton women's soccer program, coming off an undefeated, untied Ivy League season and a win in the NCAA tournament, will welcome nine members of the Class of 2017 onto the team.
  June 12, 2013 - Princeton University Athletics
• U.S. To Recommend Listing All Chimpanzees As Endangered
  The Untied States Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal today that would designate all chimpanzees as an endangered species. Currently, chimps in the wild are classified as endangered but those in captivity are not classified as such. read more
  June 11, 2013 - Georgia Public Broadcasting
• Charges dismissed in texting case
  A knot of technology is untied, leading to the dismissal of charges against a 24 year old Cumberland man who claims he was locked up for texts that were sent from the victim's phone.
  June 11, 2013 - WPRI Providence

Quotes

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• Pervez Musharraf in International Herald Tribune
  This knot of terrorism will be untied through first resolving the Palestinian dispute,said Musharraf, who switched his country's support from the Taliban to the US war on terror following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
• Vice President Dick Cheney in Reuters
  I think it is, in fact bad behavior on her part. I wish she hadn't done it,Cheney said. "Fortunately I think the various parties involved recognize she doesn't speak for the Untied States in those circumstances, she doesn't represent the...
• Paul Watson in Melbourne Herald Sun
  They assaulted them, they tied them to the rails and actually at one point those rails went under water up to their waists,Mr Watson said. "Then they came back and untied them and brought them up to the top deck and tied them for a couple...