Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

disentangle

disentangle , transitive verb

1.
To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
2.
To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
To disentangle truth from error. — Stewart
To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. — Clarendon
A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. — Bp. Stillingfleet