Usually means: Release knot from being secured.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word untie:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. untie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. untie: Merriam-Webster
  3. untie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. untie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. untie: Collins English Dictionary
  6. untie: Vocabulary.com
  7. Untie, untie: Wordnik
  8. untie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. untie: Wiktionary
  10. untie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. untie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. untie: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. untie: Dictionary.com
  14. untie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. untie: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Untie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. untie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. untie: Rhymezone
  19. Untie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. untie: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. untie: FreeDictionary.org
  22. untie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. untie: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. untie: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. untie: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. untie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. untie: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
verb:  (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
verb:  To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
verb:  (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
verb:  (programming, transitive) 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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