Detangle vs. Disentangle — What's the Difference?

(transitive) To disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).

To extricate from entanglement or involvement; free.

To clear up or resolve (a plot, for example); unravel.

To become free of entanglement.

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

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

(intransitive) To become free or untangled.

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.

Release from entanglement of difficulty;

Extricate from entanglement;

Free from involvement or entanglement;

Separate the tangles of

Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb;