unwinding

Verb

unwind (third-person singular simple present unwinds, present participle unwinding, simple past and past participle unwound)

1. (transitive) To separate (something that is wound up)
   • to unwind a ball of yarn

   Synonyms:

   untwist, untwine

2. (obsolete, transitive) To disentangle
   • […]but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them,[…]1836, Richard Hooker, The Works of Richard Hooker, volume 4, page 27
3. (colloquial, intransitive) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
   • After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.
4. (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
5. (transitive) To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
6. (transitive) To undo something.

See all 10 meanings of unwind