disentangle

verb

1. (transitive)To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.

   “I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.”

   “In my own opinion, “criminal religious movements” (CRMs) is a more accurate and useful category than “cults.” It uses, although selectively, elements from the criminological tradition. It avoids the word “cult” and tries to disentangle the category from both the folk psychology of brainwashing and the politics of “extremism” in theology.”

2. (transitive)To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.

   “This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.”

3. (intransitive)To become free or untangled.