Un*twine" (?), v. t. [1st pref. un- + twine.]

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie.

It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

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Un*twine", v. i.

To become untwined.

Milton.

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