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verb

Untie v. t. (past & past part. untied; pres. part. untying)

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." "Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink."

To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. "Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches." "All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness."

To resolve; to unfold; to clear. "They quicken sloth, perplexities untie."

Untie v. i. (past & past part. untied; pres. part. untying) To become untied or loosed.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Untie" Quotes from Famous Books

... and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to ...

— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin

... she could swim. She said if we'd take the lead off and untie her and give her a chanst, we could have a kiss apiece. But we let her ...

— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris

... n-now," he stammered, and began to untie and retie his shoe lace very carefully. ...

— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles

... on the Sabbath day, said to the crowd, 'There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day.' But the Lord's reply to him was, 'Hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath day untie his bullock or his ass from the stall and lead him to water? And this woman, daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan had bound for no less than eighteen years, was she not to be loosed from this chain because it is the Sabbath day?' When He had said this all His opponents were ashamed, while ...

— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King

... learn to die, is better than to study the ways of dying. Death will find some ways to untie or cut the most gordian knots of life, and make men's miseries as mortal as themselves: whereas evil spirits, as undying substances, are unseparable from their calamities; and, therefore, they everlastingly struggle ...

— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald

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