unweave
English
Etymology
un- + weave
Verb
unweave (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 837166078; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, OCLC 19803734:
- Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.
- 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter One, p. 20,
- Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.
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Translations
to undo something woven
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