Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To reverse the winding or twisting of: unwind a ball of yarn.
- v. To separate the tangled parts of; disentangle.
- v. To free (someone) of nervous tension or pent-up energy.
- v. To become unwound.
- v. To become free of nervous tension; relax: liked to unwind with a cocktail before dinner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To wind off; loose or separate, as what is wound or convolved; set free or loose: as, to unwind thread or a ball.
- To disentangle; free from entanglement.
- To admit of being unwound; become unwound: as, a skein that unwinds easily.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To wind off; to loose or separate; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread, to unwind a ball of yarn
- v. transitive, obsolete To disentangle
- v. intransitive, slang To relax; to chill out; as, to rest and relieve of stress
- v. intransitive To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine.
- v. obsolete To disentangle.
- v. To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
WordNet 3.0
- v. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- v. cause to feel relaxed
- v. reverse the winding or twisting of
- v. separate the tangles of
Etymologies
- From Old English unwindan. See 1st un-, and wind ("to coil"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(I believe the currently preferred Wall Street term is 'unwind' -- as in 'unwind the subprime mortgage mess'.)”
“What do you do to try to unwind from a day's gauntlet of emotional and intellectual challenges?”
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“In this situation the selling pressure is exhausted by the time the death cross occurs and now the sideline money and unwind from the hedges can actually instigate a rally.”
“But seriously, with the cathedral, the Devil's Staircase, the river and the architecture, it was really kinda idyllic -- a perfect way to unwind from a hectic fortnight of giddy traveling, and capped by a winding route home through the scenic small towns of the area, home to a bloody steak in plate-lickingly good port wine sauce courtesy of the culnary skills of Joonas.”
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“It was his time to unwind from the day and change from being a colegue/boss/employee to a loving and caring husband and father he was.”
“Sometimes when we travel here to our “second home,” it takes me a while to unwind from the pressures of work and family life back in Michigan.”
“If he went into a bathroom and saw the toilet roll hung up to unwind from the back rather than the front, it drove him nuts.”
“Well, I'm going to unwind from a very odd day, and I need to send Jerry a note and let him know he won.”
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“On the surface, this would seem to be negative for risk correlated trades, but given the size and speed of the recent selling, we view this recent move as a natural short-term unwind of overly sold positions, rather than a complete shift in sentiment.”
“That’s why so many take sleeping aids, anti anxiety, wine to unwind from a tough day.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unwind’.
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
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http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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Whatever Works (2009)
Words from 2009 'Whatever Works' film.
fault, racket, unto, flaw, fallacious, notion, decent, embalm, filch, delusion, delusions of gran..., grandeur and 135 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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TT3 Lesson 25
England, London, Figure out, flat, Tourist informati..., Underground, brochure, exchange student, traveling, thrilling, foreigner, mansion and 59 more...
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II
drowsy, formulaic, intermittent, scurry, abase, unwind, confide, forensic, prolific, rummage, aplomb, subtlety and 26 more...
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TN9 Lesson 97
Trafalgar Square, square, London, England, pigeon, exchange student, foreigner, take advantage of, advantage, disadvantage, countryside, host family and 58 more...
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