Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Untwine

Untwine , transitive verb

[1st pref. un- + twine.]

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie.
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. — Sir W. Hamilton

Untwine , intransitive verb

To become untwined. — Milton