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Unweave

Unweave \Un*weave"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + weave.] To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.

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unweave

vb. (context transitive English) To undo something woven.

WordNet
unweave

v. undo strands that have been woven together [ant: weave]

Usage examples of "unweave".

Stones swayed as if whatever spell had set them in place was at this moment unweaving itself, and Zacharias shrieked, flinging up his hands to protect himself, although mere flesh could not protect him against stone.

There were still tons of Inca clothing, sandals, unwoven fibers, and stacks of pottery.

Lawton, and they brought me one, made out of paper or some similar unwoven fiber.

There was something about Yen he did not understand, a part of the tapestry unwoven or out of sight, at least.

Their dance was at once joy and sorrow, braided together until they could not be unwoven one from the other.

She had known him before this life, she now realized, and she would know him again, and again in the unwoven tapestry of the sprawling time-to-come.

Hidden by woven air that made her seem like part of the wall, Sandry was absently unweaving and reweaving apart of her skirt when something thumped in the kitchen.

I folded the lengthwise edge of the blanket over once, cut two holes midway down, about a foot apart, and linked the holes with a piece of string, which I made by unweaving a length of rope.

Then we find somewhere safe, somewhere we can unweave again in our own time, where the Cuckoos won’t be waiting at the border.

It might have been said that she wove during the day and unwove during the night, and not with any hope of defeating solitude in that way, but, quite the contrary, in order to nurture it.