Definition of "disentangle"

disentangle

verb
third-person singular simple present disentangles, present participle disentangling, simple past and past participle disentangled
1. (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
2. (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
  Quotations
  This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
  2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 10
3. (intransitive) To become free or untangled.