The word 'unknot' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to untie or unravel a knot. Example: He struggled to unknot the tangled shoelaces on his sneakers before the basketball game started.
My therapist tailored my massage to my requirements – "unknot me, por favor".
These enzymes can also untangle and unknot DNA when it is tightly coiled into a chromatin fibre.
In the final minutes of his show, after the cartoon finished, Gao tried to unknot an even harder puzzle: How did American political discourse get to the point where it is today?
He felt his muscles unknot and some of the horror of the bonus question melt away.
For her, he represents the "end of that tangle that she carried within herself," which she may never unknot.
The long view, a step back, space to unknot our emotions — all are necessary for art.
Frank acknowledgment of the tensions between liberalism and democracy could have unknotted some of your article's odder puzzles: free and fair elections welcomed on one page, pressure-group politics and voter short-termism reprobated on the next; empowering technocrats when they limit spending, tut-tutting when they draft a European currency.Liberalism is a doctrine of limits.
"The slow unknotting of Yugoslavia will continue," he wrote in The Economist in April 1990.
For the first time she unknots her body and laughs: "Oh yes, the 18th-century romp; galloping across the countryside, highwayman and that sort of thing.
Last year, the press transformed Biden from Obama's dopey sidekick into an international statesman unknotting problems in Iraq and Afghanistan, and serving as the President's ambassador to the economically distressed here at home.
He opened the box of sweets, carefully unknotting the string, took a ludhoo, and held it out to her on his palm, whispering, "Take this, it's O.K., don't be afraid".
