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Meanings of untwist in English

Cause to become untwisted.

Usage of untwist in English
1
We found at last that we could untwist the stiffly clinging wire.
Wandl the Invader
2
Kaunitz bowed his thanks, and began to untwist the stems of the flowers.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
3
How clever they must have been, those ancients-to know how to untwist nothing.
A Canticle For Leibowitz
4
He tried to untwist them by rotating the clanker out past the boulder.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
5
Jane started to untwist one end of the wire that crossed the woman's breasts.
In the Dark
6
They do not untwist it, but keep it so always.
Big People and Little People of Other Lands
7
Be seeing you, Quinn. It began to untwist, reverting to the priest's startled death rictus.
The Neutronium Alchemist
8
We needed her warm temperatures to soften our bones and untwist the knots in our spine.
The Guardian
9
He tried to shake her off, untwist her hands; she clung to him like a leech.
Flamsted quarries
10
Have you discovered how to untwist a nothingness?
A Canticle For Leibowitz
11
I could easily untwist and seal it, but I would not do so for a kingdom!
The Missing Bride
12
Maybe to see our wheat burn would untwist that twist in his brain and make him American.
The Desert of Wheat
13
Whitehall's inability to untwist its knickers over Gordon Brown's inquiry into Tony Blair's war in Iraq has become farcical.
The Guardian
14
I care not much if I untwist my committee-man, and so give him the receipt of this grand Catholicon.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
15
Come then, Mary, do you be the one to 'untwist the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony.'
Marriage
16
He felt his guts untwist.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
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