untie
untie is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches. Shak. All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.
- 2.To resolve; to unfold; to clear. They quicken sloth, perplexities untie. Denham.
- 3.To become untied or loosed.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absolution
- absolve
- acquire
- acquit
- acquittal
- acquittance
- adrift
- advance
- affranchise
- affranchisement
- ante
- asunder
- bank
- bleed
- break
- bribe
- cast
- circulation
- clear
- collar
- contingent
- cost
- debt
- deliver
- deliverance
- deposit
- disband
- disburse
- disbursement
- discharge
- disengage
- disengagement
- disentangle
- disenthrall
- disenthrallment
- disjoin
- dismiss
- dismissal
- donation
- earnest
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is untie.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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