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Untied   /əntˈaɪd/   Listen
verb
Untie  v. t.  (past & past part. untied; pres. part. untying)  
1.
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. "Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain." "Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink."
2.
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. "Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches." "All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness."
3.
To resolve; to unfold; to clear. "They quicken sloth, perplexities untie."



Untie  v. i.  (past & past part. untied; pres. part. untying)  To become untied or loosed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Untied" Quotes from Famous Books



... commanded her to appear at tea. The hall was empty, save for Miss Willett who was playing scales with her fingers upon a sheet of sacred music, and the Carters, an opulent couple who disliked the girl, because her shoe laces were untied, and she did not look sufficiently cheery, which by some indirect process of thought led them to think that she would not like them. Rachel certainly would not have liked them, if she had seen them, for the excellent reason that Mr. Carter waxed his moustache, and Mrs. Carter wore bracelets, ...
— The Voyage Out • Virginia Woolf

... hands together and turned very pale; but for all that she was the first at Mr. Eden's head; "he is choking! he is choking! help me, aunt, help me!" but even while crying for help her nimble fingers had untied and flung away Mr. Eden's white neck-tie, which, being high and stiff, was doing him a very ill turn, as the air forcing itself violently through his nostrils ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... beads she wore about her throat, Alternate blue and amber, all untied, A lamp to light her way, and on one side The toll men pay to ...
— A Handbook for Latin Clubs • Various

... grisette rose up when I said this, and going behind the counter, reach'd down a parcel and untied it: I advanced to the side over against her: they were all too large. The beautiful grisette measured them one by one across my hand.—It would not alter their dimensions.—She begg'd I would try a single pair, which seemed to be the ...
— A Sentimental Journey • Laurence Sterne

... Garthowen; will I show them to you?" said the sailor awkwardly, as he untied the mouth of the canvas bag. "Here's a tie for my father, and a hymn-book for Ann, and here's a knife for Will, and a pocket-book for Gwilym Morris, the preacher who is lodging with them. And here," he said, opening a gaily-painted box, "is something for little Morva," and he gently laid on the ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine


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