detangle
Verb
Meaning
detangle (third-person singular simple present detangles, present participle detangling, simple past and past participle detangled)
(transitive) To disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).
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Since you are using your fingers to detangle, you are feeling your way through your strands and carefully identifying the tangles that need to be smoothed out.
It was like trying to detangle three hundred garden hoses.
My hair is so thick and knotty that it takes hours to detangle!
She has the tightest coil ever, and very very fine strands that are a nightmare to detangle.
"Shapiro’s honesty and devotion to her craft are impossible to detangle from her love of family.