slick down vs disentangle

slick down and disentangle both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slick down	No	No	Yes	No
disentangle	No	No	Yes	No

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

Other hypernyms of slick down include comb, comb out.

slick down (verb)	disentangle (verb)
give a smooth and glossy appearance	smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
	extricate from entanglement
	separate the tangles of
	release from entanglement of difficulty
	free from involvement or entanglement