untie

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (to untie), equivalent to un- +‎ tie.

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untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)

  1. (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
    to untie a knot
  2. (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
    • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
      They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
  4. (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
  5. (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
    • 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 151:
      After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

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