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unwinds

unwinds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unwind.

unwinds is the plural of unwind.

Meaning of unwind

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

Questions about unwinds

What is unwinds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unwinds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unwind.

Words near unwinds in the dictionary

  1. unwinding
  2. unwindingly
  3. unwindings
  4. unwindow
  5. unwindowed
  6. unwinds
  7. unwindy
  8. Unwinese
  9. Unwinesque
  10. unwinged
  11. unwinking

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