untie

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   undo the ties of

   They untied the prisoner

2. 2
   verb

   To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

   to untie a knot

3. 3
   verb

   To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

   Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.

4. 4
   verb

   To resolve; to unfold; to clear.

   They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.

5. 5
   verb

   In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.

   After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!

6. 6
   verb

   cause to become loose

7. 7
   verb

   To become untied or loosed.

Etymology

From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.