untie

Meaning

Verb

  • To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
  • To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  • To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  • To become untied or loosed.
  • In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.

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Origin

  • From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan, equivalent to .

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