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Straighten out
Answer for the clue "Straighten out ", 6 letters:
unknit
Alternative clues for the word unknit
Word definitions for unknit in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English uncnyttan ; see un- (2) "reverse" + knit (v.). Related: Unknitted ; unknitting .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To unravel. 2 To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unknit \Un*knit"\, v. t. [1st un- + knit.] To undo or unravel what is knitted together. Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow. --Shak.
Usage examples of unknit.
The most dolorous of all moral tragedies knit and unknit the most often in silence.
I deal with the dust and the dog hairs, wearing my oldest jeans and a cotton sweater coming unknit at the cuffs.
A bone, a muscle, a tendon, a sinew, may be ill-nourished, undeveloped, green, and unknit, but, at the worst, they are inside of a man and they are his own.
We wake and wrestle whatever greets us, be it suppurating sores, or unknit bones.
Almost impossible these days to unknit the strands that bound them all together.
The many-colored tones were unknitted, combed into individual threads: sincerity, worry, outrage, hope .
She walked through the grass, following the line of unknitted afghan, the one in which her sleepless, frightened, failing husband had swaddled on so many cold nights ten years before.
The troubled din of the Iad was continuing to escalate through this exchange, and now, staring past Kissoon into the darkness beyond the faltering walls, Harry saw its abstractions unknitting, its wheel fragmenting.
Castang, who knows nothing about the secrets in the bedroom, being a bad detective, but observing the brow unknitting a wee bit.
Images of its couplings appeared in her head now: intimacies that were perhaps only possible in the profligacy of sleep, unknitting both male and female and weaving them together again in new and ecstatic combinations.
She rolled over onto her back and panted like a sprinter at the tape, while Quaisoir's filaments unknitted themselves and returned to serve their mistress.
Half his face was missing, stripped to the bone, and his body was more unknitted than the corpse he'd left on the table above: his abdomen gaping, his limbs battered.
Teeth came down from an unknitted balcony above, and loops of gut unraveled from the sills, dragging down curtains of tissue as they came.
Those not devoured by the bed from which they’d sprung were subject to a fate still more terrible, as the powers that had made them unknitted their children.
Roberts’s eyes slid out of focus, his brows unknitted, and a took of dreamy unconcern fell over his face.