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uncoil
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. unwind or untwist [ant: coil ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncoil \Un*coil"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + coil.] To unwind or open, as a coil of rope. --Derham.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1713 (transitive), from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + coil (v.). Related: Uncoiled ; uncoiling .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To unwind or untwist (something). 2 (context intransitive English) To unwind or untwist oneself.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fenella could feel the shadows stirring already; she could feel a dark, slimy something uncoiling somewhere close by. ▪ Granny Weatherwax lay in it, her dress torn, her hair uncoiling from its rock-hard bun. ▪ If you are using ...
Usage examples of uncoil.
Smoke, twisted by the wind, uncoiled to show the autogiro hovering directly above the flaming house.
His uncircumcised penis was like a length of heavy rope, uncoiling from a tuft of brown-yellow pubic hair.
The pavement uncoiled in front of the truck like a lazy blacksnake, striped with the shadows of trees cast by the setting sun.
A little note was attached to one of the uncoiled springs explaining that it was the victim of the first shot fired at the Cav from inside one of its own helicopters.
August afternoon in 1950 that Simon Templar uncoiled his lean seventyfour-inch frame from the seat he had occupied for interminable hours in the creaking Parnassian Airways Dakota, and stepped down on to the tarmac of Athens Airport.
The costermongers on Silverback Street were yelling and pointing at the fat dirigible uncoiling its dangling rigging to the earth.
His voice, as deep and dark as the swamps that had spawned him, caused an unexpected heat to uncoil in her stomach.
There was a soft, rumbling meow and a small thump as Zipp uncoiled from the foot of the bed and leaped onto the sill.
His flexible enhanced arms uncoiling, straightening, assuming fixed joints at elbow-height, he soon became an approximation of any other unenhanced human -- albeit a painfully thin one, with a lip that drooped to the right.
Youngman with a little bow, and Youngman would uncoil himself and standing negligently beside the table asking idle questions.
Finally they uncoiled, rose to their feet, befouled the yard in a most lavish manner, and skulked away.
IM: a press cutting from an English weekly periodical Modern Society, subject corporal chastisement in girls' schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year 1899: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, P.
The broad, serpentine terrace uncoils it's slanting cordons with a multiplicity of curves and angles and patient reaches of circumvention, which give it the air of some wanton revelry of engineering genius.
As Darfur turned to lay his rifle against a chair, Pitt, who'd pretended a look of fear, suddenly uncoiled like a rattier and lashed out at Darfur with his knee, catching the monstrous man in the groin.
And that when they do, they won't capture your eagles, perhaps you, Podarge, and will place the bell shape over your heads, and empty your brains of your thoughts and memory, uncoil you into death, and then possess your brains and bodies for their use?