unweave en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + weave.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unweaved | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unweaved | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unweaves | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unwove | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unweaving | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unwoven | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
la extexō (to undo something woven)