Word Meanings - UNTWIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNTWIST)

• Ravel
• Separate
• undo
• untwist
• unwind
• disentangle

Related words: (words related to UNTWIST)

• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• RAVEL
  1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak. 2. To undo the intricacies of;
• RAVELER
  One who ravels.
• DISENTANGLE
  1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To extricate from complication and
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• RAVELING
  1. The act of untwisting, or of disentangling. 2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
• UNWIND
  1. To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn. 2. To disentangle. Hooker.
• DISENTANGLEMENT
  The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• OUTTRAVEL
  To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.
• UNRAVELMENT
  The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• UNTRAVELED
  1. Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest. 2. Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.
• UNRAVEL
  1. To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking. 2. Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot. 3. To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into
• GRAVELLINESS
  State of being gravelly.
• CARAVEL
  A name given to several kinds of vessels. The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage. A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150
• GRAVELLY
  Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
• TRAVEL-TAINTED
  Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak.