unweave

verb

unweave

verb

Etymology From un- + weave.

1

To undo something woven.

  • Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
  • Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 20:

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