Contact and joining
Synonyms for untie
The synonym for untie recorded in this bank is loosen, in the sense "cause to become loose". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for untie
- loosenverb, in the sense "cause to become loose"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and untie carries one sense so far.
cause to become loose
Untie the knot.
The true synonym
loosen
Same sentence, swapped: Loosen the knot.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- shallow
- satisfy
- stain
Where untie turns up in the game
untie is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where untie is the trap
- openverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is spread, in the sense "spread out or open from a closed or folded state", so untie is there to be ruled out.
Play untie
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so untie reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company untie keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
untie is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.