"untwist" meaning in English

See untwist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ʌnˈtwɪst/ Forms: untwist [canonical], untwists [third-person, singular], untwisted [past], untwisted [past, participle], untwisting [present, participle]
Etymology: un- + twist Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|un|twist}} un- + twist Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you untwist something, you remove a twist from it.
    Sense id: simple-untwist-en-verb-eomWdHfF
  2. If something untwists, it opens from a twisted position.
    Sense id: simple-untwist-en-verb-GXzz3AV5 Categories (other): Verbs
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with un-
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms prefixed with un-",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "un",
        "2": "twist"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + twist",
      "name": "ety-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "un- + twist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "untwist",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwists",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwisted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwisted",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwisting",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "If you untwist something, you remove a twist from it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-untwist-en-verb-eomWdHfF",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something untwists, it opens from a twisted position."
      ],
      "id": "simple-untwist-en-verb-GXzz3AV5",
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌnˈtwɪst/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "untwist"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Terms prefixed with un-"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "un",
        "2": "twist"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + twist",
      "name": "ety-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "un- + twist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "untwist",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwists",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwisted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwisted",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "untwisting",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you untwist something, you remove a twist from it."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Intransitive verbs",
        "Verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something untwists, it opens from a twisted position."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌnˈtwɪst/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "untwist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for untwist meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.