to unweave
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8.6
- verb
- /ʌnˈwiːv/
:
deshacer
- Penelope weaves Laertes' shroud, the completion of which will mean marriage to one of her suitors; by trickery, she eludes this fate, unweaving by night what she does by day.
- unweave a rainbow
- try to unweave
You know, the thing they got from the from the from the post war left was that, you know, the sort of life was of web which you had to unweave.
- You know, the thing they got from the from the from the post war left was that, you know, the sort of life was of web which you had to unweave.
- But if you try to unweave that, you would unravel all of this, which is the only good I'm ever going to do in the world is this.
- So we talk about this in transformation process and there's, there's a lot to talk like to kind of unweave out of this process.
Examples
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You know, we're slicing through these guys at the seams, just unweaving this Roman defense piece by piece.
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- As we weave and unweave our bodies from day to day, their molecules shuttling to and fro, so, too, does the artist weave and unweave his image.
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And, and what we're doing now is playing the unweave recipe backwards.
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And this one much was written about unweaving the rainbow.
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White arms and brown legs unweave a tangled sheet.
Fiction book (1999) -
Unweave a rainbow, as it erstwhile made.
Fiction book (1995) -
So we talk about this in transformation process and there's, there's a lot to talk like to kind of unweave out of this process.
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But if you try to unweave that, you would unravel all of this, which is the only good I'm ever going to do in the world is this.
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By disrupting virtually every device that might create closure or monopolize meaning, Woolf "unweaves" the father's stories.
Fiction book (1993) -
She took apart the old sweater to unweave the yarn and use it for a new project.
Synonyms
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4.3
To come apart into threads, like a rope or cloth
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3.5
To separate threads or cords that are twisted together
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3.7
To make something that is twisted become straight
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5.3
To free something twisted and knotted, like a cord
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7.1
To take apart hair or thread that is twisted together
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7.4
To separate things that are twisted together, like cables or yarn
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7.6
To free something from a tangle, like knots in rope or wire
To take thread out of a needle, cloth, or hole
Antonyms
How Undone
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unweave is made of un- meaning 'reverse' and weave meaning 'to twist threads together', so unweave means to 'take woven threads apart'. A helpful image is Penelope, who would unweave her tapestry each night, which shows the idea of undoing something that was woven.