Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To undo or take to pieces (that which has been woven, as a textile fabric).
  • To separate; take apart, as the threads which compose a textile fabric.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To undo something woven.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb undo strands that have been woven together

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ weave

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Examples

  • When you unweave all the fibors when the gar bites the fly it's teeth get entangled in the fly.

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  • It took me two sentences, yet it took Michael bay 150 minutes to clumsily unweave that blanket of stupid.

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  • But if that system is allowed to rot by religious leaders forgetting that their first responsibility is to communicate moral behavior and courageously criticize actions that unweave the fabric of society, the result is newspaper editors who will listen in to a dead girl's messages to boost circulation and youth who feel the right to burn down a city when angry.

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  • But if that system is allowed to rot by religious leaders forgetting that their first responsibility is to communicate moral behavior and courageously criticize actions that unweave the fabric of society, the result is newspaper editors who will listen in to a dead girl's messages to boost circulation and youth who feel the right to burn down a city when angry.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Decline and Fall of British Values Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • When you unweave all the fibors when the gar bites the fly it's teeth get entangled in the fly.

    "Fly" Fishing with Spider Silk and Kites 2009

  • And if Nkumai was as efficient as Mueller, and sent spies to learn more about a nation that had sent an embassy, my little fabric of lies would soon unweave itself.

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  • And then it's just weave, weave, weave - and unweave once in a while.

    Finally finished! a stitch in time 2009

  • Textile work is a bit frustrating at the moment as well - I still have a bit of the tabletweave to finish, and I just had to unweave a good bit, since I had gotten the tension of the weave wrong, resulting in bad patterning.

    Uh. Where's that track to get back on? a stitch in time 2009

  • I had to unweave several bits during the weaving, which is a pretty frustrating experience.

    Finally finished! a stitch in time 2009

  • Same thing, unweave and re-weave with the hopefully correct tension.

    Finally finished! a stitch in time 2009

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