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unweave

unweave verb: to undo something woven.

Verb

unweave (third-person singular simple present unweaves, present participle unweaving, simple past unwove or unweaved, past participle unwoven or unweaved)

  1. (transitive) 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

Forms of unweave

third-person singular presentunweaves
present participleunweaving
pastunwove
pastunweaved
past participleunwoven
past participleunweaved

Origin of unweave

From un- + weave.

Questions about unweave

What does unweave mean?
Unweave means to undo something woven.
What part of speech is unweave?
Unweave is a verb.
What is the past tense of unweave?
The past tense of unweave is unwove.

Words near unweave in the dictionary

  1. unweathered
  2. unweathering
  3. unweatherly
  4. unweathers
  5. unweatherwise
  6. unweave
  7. unweaved
  8. unweaves
  9. unweaving
  10. unweb
  11. unwebbed

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