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n. - The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition.

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Usage examples (7)
  • She was fearful of exposing her unhappy heart, and she had withal some vague hope of unsnarling the tangled skein when she should find opportunity to think.
  • Nylan scrambled through the mid-level powernet, cooling feedback, and unsnarling the energy loop from the second fusactor, always more sensitive to field effects.
  • "Obviously, the federal government needs to be doing a better job in unsnarling these problems," said Sherman.
  • Things were badly messed up that night many times and no one envied the M.P. 's their job of unsnarling the mix-ups.
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