disentangle vs loosen

disentangle and loosen both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
disentangle	No	No	Yes	No
loosen	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, loosen is a hyponym of disentangle; that is, loosen is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than disentangle:

Other hyponyms of disentangle include tease, tease apart, ravel, ravel out, unravel.

disentangle (verb)	loosen (verb)
smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb	become loose or looser or less tight
extricate from entanglement	make loose or looser
separate the tangles of	make less dense
release from entanglement of difficulty	disentangle and raise the fibers of
free from involvement or entanglement	cause to become loose
	become less severe or strict
	make less severe or strict