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untying

verb

Meaning

  1. To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
  2. To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  3. To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  4. To become untied or loosed.
  5. In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
  6. The act by which something is untied.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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