untangle
/ʌnˈtæŋɡəl/ · un·tan·gle
verb
- To remove tangles or knots from something, especially hair or rope. She carefully untangled the snarled cords before storing them away.
- To remove confusion, complexity, or mystery from a situation or problem. After hours of discussion, the team finally untangled the budget discrepancies.
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Did you know? The term “untangle” gained a technical twist in the 1990s when computer scientists coined “graph untangling” to describe algorithms that redraw tangled network diagrams without edge crossings.