untwine

• POS: Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: un=twine

CIDE DICTIONARY

untwine, v. t. [1st pref. un- + twine.].

 To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie.  [1913 Webster]
"It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old."  [1913 Webster]

untwine, v. i. 

 To become untwined.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

untwine, v.tr. & intr. untwist, unwind.

ROGET THESAURUS

untwine

Evolution

VB evolve, unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel, untangle, disentangle, develop.