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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disinvolve, disembroil, disentangleverb

    free from involvement or entanglement

    "How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?"

Wiktionary

  1. disembroilverb

    To free or extricate from confusion

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Disembroilverb

    To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to reduce from confusion.

    Etymology: debruiller, French.

    Then earth from air, and seas from earth were driv’n,
    And grosser air sunk from etherial heav’n;
    Thus disembroil’d, they take their proper place. Dryden.

    The system of his politicks is disembroiled, and cleared of all those incoherences and independent matters that are woven into this motly piece. Joseph Addison, Whig Examiner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Disembroilverb

    to disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion

  2. Etymology: [Pref. dis- + embroil.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Disembroil

    dis-em-broil′, v.t. to free from broil or confusion.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disembroil in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disembroil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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