📦 Not opened ↩️ To fold up

to unspread

8.1

To fold up or gather together something that was opened out, like a blanket

verb
/ʌnˈsprɛd/

: recoger

Once the event was over, the volunteers unspread the banners and stored them.

Examples

Please unspread the blanket before putting it away.
She unspreads the map after using it.
After the picnic, she unspread the blanket and packed it away.
He carefully unspread the map before putting it back in his bag.
After the picnic, we had to unspread the tablecloth and put it away.
He quickly learned how to unspread the maps after they had been laid out.
To clean up, we need to unspread the sheets we used for the art project.

Antonyms

to spread

768 1.6

To put a thin layer over a surface

How Folded

to put away

362 2.0

to fold

328 1.0

to unspread

8.1

to gather

∞ 1.0

to lay out

126 3.1

Surface Forms

unspread infinitive

unspread past

unspread past participle

unspreading present participle

unspreads third person singular

Morphology

unspread = spread (transparent) = un + spread

The verb is formed by adding the reversive/negative prefix 'un-' to the verb 'spread', following a productive pattern (e.g., unfold, unroll).

Etymology

Unspread comes from the prefix un- meaning 'reverse', as in undo, and spread meaning 'to open out'. So to unspread is to 'reverse the spreading' — to fold up or gather together something that was open.