loosen vs disentangle

loosen and disentangle both are verbs.

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

As verbs, disentangle is a hypernym of loosen; that is, disentangle is a word with a broader meaning than loosen:

Other hypernyms of loosen include straighten out, unsnarl.

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