UNTIE definition: to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot. See examples of untie used in a sentence.
The meaning of UNTIE is to free from something that ties, fastens, or restrains : unbind. How to use untie in a sentence.
- To undo or loosen (a knot or something knotted). 2. To free from something that binds or restrains: untie a horse from a tree. 3. To straighten out (difficulties, for example); resolve.
If you untie something that is tied to another thing or if you untie two things that are tied together, you remove the string or rope that holds them or that has been tied around them.
The very valuable chronology, and the biographies of the persons named, modestly conceal the difficulty of the labours which produced them and the complexity of the scholarly knots they untie.
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.
He untied the package and opened it. Your shoelaces are untied. The knot untied easily. She untied the horse from the post.
Definition of untie verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
un tie /ʌnˈtaɪ/ v. [~ + object], -tied, -ty ing. to loose or unfasten (anything tied); let or set loose by undoing a knot: to untie a prisoner. to undo the string or cords of: to untie (the strings of) a package.