UNTWINED Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

untwined

verb

past tense of untwine

as in unraveled

to separate the various strands of untwined his shoelaces

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Brooklyn unraveled in the final two minutes Saturday, surrendering 10 consecutive points and a 17-point lead in a 124-121 loss to the Hawks at State Farm Arena.

— C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026
Astrologer Renee Watt urges taking stock of where prior relationships unraveled and what red flags were brushed aside.

— Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026

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The researchers discovered that the nuclear spin could be flipped even when the electron and nuclear spins were largely disentangled.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
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

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