unweave
English
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editunweave (third-person singular simple present unweaves, present participle unweaving, simple past unwove or unweaved, past participle unwoven or unweaved)
- (transitive) To undo something woven.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC[1]:
- Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.
- 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in Dubin’s Lives[2], New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 20:
- Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.
Translations
editto undo something woven
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