Object

• thread: The concern of the essays in Featherstone's volume is to disentangle the various threads that such questions invariably conflate.

• effect: It was difficult to disentangle the effects of teaching.

• meaning: There's no point drafting convoluted legalese to be sure of precision if people then can't disentangle the meaning.

Used with why or when

• what: When we disentangle what we believe, and what we used to build our universe, is what will exist in our universe.

Modifying Another Word

• carefully: This took a lot of painstaking work, as in some cases I had to carefully disentangle stems before tying them in again.

• n't: There's no point drafting convoluted legalese to be sure of precision if people then ca n't disentangle the meaning.