UNTANGLED Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

untangled

verb

past tense of untangle

as in unraveled

to separate the various strands of gently untangled the baby's hair

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as in freed

to set free from entanglement or difficulty I was finally able to untangle myself from my credit problems

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Recent Examples of untangled Zack Wheeler pitched a gem against Tampa Bay on Sunday and untangled a few thousand knots inside the stomachs of Phillies fans, and even from those inside a mostly solemn clubhouse. — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 Below are the ones that untangled our knots and delivered the most seamless combing and brushing experience. — Eden Stuart, Glamour, 7 July 2026 There remain other, muddled storylines across this LIV timeline that won’t get untangled. — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026 One other question may be how easily his businesses may be untangled if the company is sold in pieces. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026 They eventually were untangled, and the referees were convening at center ice when Tkachuk skated off the bench and toward the Red Wings penalty box to talk to Edvinsson. — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 27 Feb. 2026 At the end of Manchester City’s 2-1 recent win against Liverpool, as officials gradually untangled the bizarre late incident involving Erling Haaland and Dominik Szoboszlai, Neville informed viewers how close the game was to full time. — Michael Cox, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026 This petite, chic travel jewelry case keeps necklaces untangled, prevents rings from drifting to the bottom of her carry-on, and secures earring posts from bending or breaking. — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026 North Crowley fell on it first, but when the pile was untangled, Allen tight end Jackson Hoppe had it. — Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025

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The ceasefire quickly unraveled, and the 60-day deadline passed last month with no breakthroughs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Marking the feature debut of writer-director Joe Camara, the film follows Luke (Leone), a man struggling with addiction, debt and a life that has steadily unraveled around him.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of unraveled

Verb

Castellanos traveled to Houston to meet her husband after learning he would be freed.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Trouble is on the horizon though as an explosion on one of his oil rigs has freed a killer ice floe, setting loose tsunamis, threatening hundreds of thousands of lives and heading directly for Europe.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of freed

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Pawlikowski’s mother and father, also named Zula and Wiktor, whose unmanageable love had kept them tangled and disentangled for decades, took their own lives in 1989, as the Cold War that had cast its chill upon their time was beginning to thaw.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Systems have to be disentangled, employees moved, contracts rewritten, and corporate functions recreated.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of disentangled

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Live Healthy Chicago aims to turn 130/80 and 1,000 into a movement transforming a silent epidemic into a celebration of lives saved.

— Garth Walker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
It's already been tried out on 22 aircraft in Lufthansa Group's own Boeing 777 fleet, where it is reported to have saved up to 19 tonnes of fuel per day.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of saved

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One person needed to be extricated after they were trapped under a vehicle, The Guardian reported, citing the fire rescue.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026
Several victims were trapped in the vehicles that were hit by the plane and had to be extricated, Jadallah said.

— Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of extricated

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We were taught by a gruff cockney called Fred Waring, who had participated in the D-Day landings in a regiment that had fought its way across Europe towards Berlin and liberated the concentration camp at Belsen.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
While maybe not what anyone would call a feminist show, Charlie’s Angels did come along right when women were first being liberated on network TV.

— Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

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