Un-twine', v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. UNTWINED; p. pr. & vb. n. UNTWINING.] To untwist; to open; to disentangle; to separate, as that which winds or clasps.

It requires a long and powerful counter-sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.