untangle
/ʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)l/
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American sound/ʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)l/
ʌnˈtaŋɡəl
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- 3 syllables
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- 2nd syllable stress
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- Schwa vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
ʌn - ˈtaŋɡəl -> untangle
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- ‘At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head, untangling the fishing line, scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface.’
- ‘While progress is good, and the scarf will be completed, I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting.’
- ‘The bones were sort of tangled, so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers.’
- ‘It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim.’
- ‘Instead, engineers developed ‘splicing, ’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time.’
- ‘Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.’
- ‘He twisted his hands to untangle them, then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass.’
- ‘Initially, the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her.’
- ‘Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering, so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it, removing, where possible, just the oldest wood.’
- ‘Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes.’
- ‘The place was deserted, save for myriad squirrels, but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings, so I did my bit for community service and untangled them.’
- ‘I would watch the dark, tanned bodies of fishermen, untangling their seine, getting ready for the toils of the day.’
- ‘Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.’
- ‘A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood.’
- ‘This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence.’
- ‘This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river.’
- ‘A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam.’
- ‘She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.’
- ‘For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable.’
- ‘If Alam's job as hard-nosed, aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction, Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology.’
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