verb
- to untie or undo a knot or knots
- to resolve or clear up something complicated or confused
Usage: figurative
Examples
- She carefully unknotted the tangled shoelaces.
- The sailor unknotted the rope with practiced ease.
- It took him several minutes to unknot the fishing line.
- The therapist helped unknot the family’s communication problems.
- We need to unknot this complicated legal issue.
- The detective worked to unknot the mystery surrounding the case.