untie

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- +‎ tie. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʌnˈtaɪ/ Rhymes: -aɪ === Verb === untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied) (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. To resolve; to unfold; to clear. 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem) They quicken sloth, perplexities untie. (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. ==== Synonyms ==== unfasten ==== Antonyms ==== tie ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “untie”, in Collins English Dictionary. “untie”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “untie”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “untie”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. === Anagrams === unite