untease

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verb

To disentangle; to tease apart.

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Meanings

verbuntease (third-person singular simple present unteases, present participle unteasing, simple past and past participle unteased)

present singular third person unteases · participle present unteasing · participle past unteased · past unteased

  1. To disentangle; to tease apart.

    My purpose in this article is to untease that tangled web of philosophy and science which constitutes cognitive science.

    1989, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
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    This study made use of the stochasticity preserved by Monte Carlo methods to untease the different sources of synaptic variability.

    2002, Kevin M. Franks, A Monte Carlo Model of Synaptic Signaling, page 13

    Her eyebrows reduced once more to smooth, perfect arcs above her deep-blue eyes, she took off the towel and started running her fingers through her wet hair to untease the knots before winding in the curlers.

    2012, Daphne Wright, The Parrot Cage, →ISBN

Origin

From un- + tease.

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APA

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MLA

“untease.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untease. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untease,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untease.

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