Dictionary entry

Untangle

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)l/

Pronunciation

/ʌnˈtaŋɡ(ə)l/

Myanmar Meaning

မငြိမတွယ် ဖြစ်စေသည်။

Definition

untangle /ʌn'tæŋgl / v ၁။ (အ႐ႈပ္၊ အေထြး၊ အထံုး၊ အလိမ္ကို) ရွင္းသည္။ untangle knitting wool ❍ She untangled her skirt from the barbed wire. ၂။ (ျပႆနာ၊ ပေဟဠိ) ရွင္းသည္၊ ေျဖသည္။ untangle a mystery/ sb's financial affairs.

Examples

  1. ‘At the next pull it shakes into life and we're off towards Dawros Head
  2. untangling the fishing line
  3. scanning the water for mackerel shoals breaking the surface.’
  4. ‘While progress is good
  5. and the scarf will be completed
  6. I sometimes think that untangling the wool is more fun than the actual knitting.’
  7. ‘The bones were sort of tangled
  8. so the doctors had to untangle the bones and then sort of maneuver their way through my hand and create fingers.’
  9. ‘It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim.’
  10. ‘Instead
  11. engineers developed ‘splicing
  12. ’ which untangles the ends of threads and twists them together at the same time.’
  13. ‘Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber
  14. as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.’
  15. ‘He twisted his hands to untangle them
  16. then he discovered my watch and started poking at the liquid crystal display behind the glass.’
  17. ‘Initially
  18. the umbilical cord was caught around her neck so while she untangled her new daughter he fetched clean towels and helped to clean her.’
  19. ‘Most ramblers flower on shoots produced the previous season so anything pruned now reduces flowering
  20. so prune only to shape the plant and untangle it
  21. removing
  22. where possible
  23. just the oldest wood.’
  24. ‘Combs for untangling knots sell like hot cakes.’
  25. ‘The place was deserted
  26. save for myriad squirrels
  27. but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings
  28. so I did my bit for community service and untangled them.’
  29. ‘I would watch the dark
  30. tanned bodies of fishermen
  31. untangling their seine
  32. getting ready for the toils of the day.’
  33. ‘Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat
  34. cope with water shortages
  35. regularly untangle his propeller
  36. avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.’
  37. ‘A weeping father untangles the limbs of his dead son from the barbed wire that held him under the flood.’
  38. ‘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.’
  39. ‘This is the second time in the last 12 months we have had to untangle a swan from the river.’
  40. ‘A worker untangles his hose on the freshly sandblasted deck of the Queen of Coquitlam.’
  41. ‘She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse
  42. the bushes scratching at her arms
  43. snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.’
  44. ‘For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system
  45. it's pretty much indispensable.’
  46. ‘If Alam's job as hard-nosed
  47. aggressive news editor is to untangle fact from fiction
  48. Yaqub's as editor is to give her younger readers a sense of identity within a traditional theology.’