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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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Untie definition: to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot.. See examples of UNTIE used in a sentence.
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.
The meaning of UNTIE is to free from something that ties, fastens, or restrains : unbind. How to use untie in a sentence.
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. Just untie my hands.
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.
To resolve; to unfold; to clear. ( intransitive) To become untied or loosed. ( programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
Factsheet What does the verb untie mean? There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb untie. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
UNTIE definition: to open a knot or something that has been tied with a knot: . Learn more.
