The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word UNTYING
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What does UNTYING mean?
UNTYING verb- To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- To become untied or loosed.
- In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- The act by which something is untied.