wyplątać in English:

Help me disentangle my shoelaces.

What the woman is to him, and he to her, will never be disentangled.

The authors argue there are at least three separate developments taking place, though it is often quite difficult to disentangle them

apart from the literal meaning: 1. to separate ideas so that they are no longer confused 2. to get yourself out of a situation that you no longer want to be involved in (e.g. disentangled myself from the relationship)

We naturally hope that you will extricate us from this prickly situation.

They managed to extricate the pilot from the tangled control panel.

I extricated myself out of this complicated situation...

... which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining...

I extricated a chart from the mess.