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- Dictionaryuntie/ʌnˈtʌɪ/
verb
- 1. undo or unfasten (something that is tied or tied up): "she knelt to untie her laces"
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to unfasten a knot or something tied: I had to help her untie her shoelaces. (Definition of untie from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of untie. untie. Again, the passage of time and accumulation of data will help us to untie this knot. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Untie definition: to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.. See examples of UNTIE used in a sentence.
1. : to free from something that ties, fastens, or restrains : unbind. untied our hands. 2. a. : to disengage the knotted parts of. untie a shoe. b. : disentangle, resolve. untie a traffic jam. intransitive verb. : to become loosened or unbound. Synonyms. unbind. undo. unfasten. unlash. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
If you untie something that is tied to another thing, or if you untie two things that are tied together, you remove the string or rope that holds them.
verb. cause to become loose. “ untie the knot”. synonyms: loosen, undo. see more. verb. undo the ties of. “They untied the prisoner”. synonyms: unbrace, unlace.
to unfasten a knot or something tied: I had to help her untie her shoelaces. (Definition of untie from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of untie. untie. At the end of winter, they would simply untie them and release them back to the wild. From Slate Magazine.
verb. /ʌnˈtaɪ/ Verb Forms. untie something to separate the pieces of string, rope, etc. that form a knot in something; to remove the string, rope, etc. from something that is tied. to untie a knot. I quickly untied the package and peeped inside. He untied the rope and pushed the boat into the water. She untied his hands and let him go.
1. to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot. 2. to undo the string or cords of. 3. to undo, as a cord or a knot. 4. to free from restraint. 5. to resolve, as perplexities. v.i. 6. to become untied. [before 1000]
verb. /ʌnˈtaɪ/. untie something Verb Forms. to undo a knot in something; to undo something that is tied to untie a knot I quickly untied the package and peeped inside. He untied the rope and pushed the boat into the water. She untied his hands and let him go.
UNTIE definition: to open a knot or something that has been tied with a knot: . Learn more.
