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disentangle in French

disentangle in French is démêler — disentangle means to undo something that has become tangled or knotted.

disentangle in French

démêler
verb
(transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.

What does "disentangle" mean?

  1. verb To undo something that has become tangled or knotted.
    "I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces."
  2. verb To separate something complicated into its individual parts.
    "This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle."
  3. verb To come loose from being tangled up.
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disentangle in a sentence

  • I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.
  • This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.

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What is "disentangle" in French?
"disentangle" in French is démêler. disentangle means: To undo something that has become tangled or knotted.
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