untie
Meaning
- To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- To become untied or loosed.
- In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
Synonyms
disclose
open out
set loose
take of
make loose
get loose
discharge a debt
unbruise
rip out
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʌnˈtaɪ/
Etymology
From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.
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