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Untwine  v. t.  To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. "It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old."



Untwine  v. i.  To become untwined.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Untwine" Quotes from Famous Books



... I a habit break?" As you did that habit make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist, Till they bind us, neck and wrist; Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine, ere free we stand; As we builded, stone by stone, We must toil unhelped, alone, ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... himself forgoing, With such delight, such savour, and so well, That both to one sole end their wills combine; If thousands of these thoughts, all thought outgoing, Fail the least part of their firm love to tell: Say, can mere angry spite this knot untwine? ...
— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella



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