Definition of "untwine" [un•twine]

• To separate the twisted strands of: untwine a rope. (verb-transitive)
• To disentangle. (verb-transitive)
• To become untwined. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in such a way as constantly to encounter him again."
• "They started to untwine -- much quicker than the night before."
• "That man was out of his truck faster than I could untwine my arms."