Crossword clues for untie
untie
- Loosen, as a skate
- Free of knots
- Work out the knots
- Solve a knotty problem?
- Remove the tether
- Prepare to take off, perhaps
- Open, as laces
- Get the knots out
- Deal with a snarl
- Break a deadlock
- Render knotless
- Remove the ropes
- Remove an ascot, e.g
- Release from ropes
- Opposite of knot
- Loosen the laces
- Unite (anag)
- Undo knots
- Take off, as scrubs
- Take off a cravat
- Stop from being bound
- Solve a knot
- Set free from ropes
- Resolve a knotty issue?
- Remove, as a tether
- Remove, as a rope
- Remove, as a cravat
- Remove the knots from
- Remove knots
- Remove a knot, say
- Remove a granny?
- Remove a cravat
- Remove a bow
- Open, as a lace
- Open, as a bow
- Make a knot not a knot
- Make a knot not
- Loosen, perhaps
- Loosen, like laces
- Loosen, as knots
- Loosen, as an ascot
- Loosen Timberlands
- Loosen an ascot
- Liberate, maybe
- Liberate, in a way
- Liberate from the hitching post
- Liberate from restraints
- Liberate from bondage
- Let loose
- Let loose?
- Grayson Hugh "I Can't ___ You From Me"
- Go ahead in overtime?
- Get out of bonds
- Free, as laces
- Free from ropes
- Free from bonds
- Free from bindings
- Free from a knot
- Free from a bind
- Fix a knotty situation
- Destroy a knot
- Destroy a bow
- Deal with knotted laces
- De-knot laces
- Correct knotted laces
- Cause a knot to be not
- Bad Company "___ the Knot"
- Loosen, as laces
- Disunite
- Loosen the laces of
- Free, as knots
- Free, in a way
- Ruin a bow
- Pull strings?
- Set free, in a way
- Let loose, in a way
- Remove, as a knot
- Free from restraints, in a way
- Loosen, as a knot
- Disentangle, e.g
- Remove, as a 28-Down
- Release, in a way
- Prepare to take off?
- Loosen, in a way
- Loosen, as 70-Across
- Not knot?
- Loosen, as a bow
- Loosen, as neckwear
- Loosen the bonds
- Loosen a knot
- Set loose
- Extricate
- Get rid of a knot
- Free from fetters
- Release from bonds
- Loosen a lacet
- Loosen knots
- Disconnect
- One drops in to make one free
- We hear Cockney's making twice the amount of capital
- A French match is separate
- Free time in university — Edinburgh, principally
- Free countries united by bond
- Free article given away by relative
- Free … or the BBC's heading for extinction
- For Wenger, a match is free
- A French Connection release?
- After knocking it back, couple gets loose
- Loosen (a knot)
- Loosen laces
- Loosen link, it's back to front
- Loose woman, relatively speaking, is relieved of her top
- Release United fan finally before match
- Release neckwear for NY assembly?
- Punt, not the first that is set free
- Twist near end of knot to loosen
- Undo laces
- Take apart, as a knot
- Open, in a way
- Loosen, as shoelaces
- Pull some strings?
- Loosen, as a shoelace
- Loosen up
- Free from bondage, in a way
- Release from bondage
- Open, as a knot
- Loosen, as shoes
- Prepare for takeoff?
- Remove a knot from
- Open, as shoelaces
- Prepare to remove, as sneakers
- Get the knots out of
- Cause a knot not to be
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Untie \Un*tie"\, v. t. [AS. unt[=y]gan. See 1st Un-, and Tie, v. t.]
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To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.
Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain.
--Waller.Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink.
--Pope. -
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches.
--Shak.All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
--Jer. Taylor. -
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
--Denham.
Untie \Un*tie"\, v. i. To become untied or loosed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. 2 (context transitive English) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. 3 To resolve; to unfold; to clear. 4 (context intransitive English) To become untied or loosed.
WordNet
Usage examples of "untie".
Hetherton liked being late at church, and so, notwithstanding that the Colonel had worked himself into a tempest of excitement, had tied and untied her bonnet-strings half a dozen times, changed her rich basquine for a thread lace mantilla, and then, just as the bell from St.
Then he untied the rope from around his waist and dropped one end back down to Brast and hissed for him to climb up.
The musty smell of overwear rose up from them and our noses wrinkled as we untied his bootlaces.
I decided that even the rankest of amateur detectives needs a stooge to untie him - go on and laugh at me, if you want to, for even attempting to detect!
Kara, her black hair rumpled down her back, flushed with anger and working at untying and ungagging her mother.
Lieutenant Malstrom returned my salute in offhand fashion, his eye on the suited sailor untying our forward safety line from the shoreside stanchion.
I untied the nearest, Showman, and led him quietly up the yard and into the van.
It is a case of the resistance of Gordian knots, which not even the very spinstress who fastened them is capable of untying.
Luken untied his ankles, and hauled him off the strich, while Sir talked to the priests.
He was upset about being kidnapped and wanted to be untied when I got here.
Lissianna on his return from Mexico if they untied him now, then promptly rethought the decision.
Then she felt her limbs being quickly untied, and the blindfold was taken away.
He was carried to the bed and placed on his back on the crimson brocade coverlet, four guards firmly holding him down while four others untied his feet and, slipping his shoes off, secured his ankles to the bed posts with thick, braided silk cord.
Restrained by the weight of four guardsmen, his wrists were then untied and, after forcing his arms above his head, he was bound to the headboard with knots pulled so tight, there was no question of him gaining his freedom.
She watched as the servant untied her one leg, and then, as she nibbled, deftly surrounded her other ankle with the soft, slick satin bonds before she untied the ragged shirtsleeve.