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  • verb Simple past of unweave.

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Examples

  • The bloodied cuff then unwove, separating itself from the sleeve.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • The climatefiber on the left cuff unwove, leaving the cuff free.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • The video has a primitiveness reminiscent of 1930s cartoons but also a mythic pull, as it reminds viewers of the tale of Penelope, Odysseus's wife, who wove and then unwove the same piece of cloth every day to forestall her suitors.

    A Starkly Physical Look 2008

  • So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it;

    "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us." Ann Althouse 2007

  • When he was sure Lyle Carrier was dead he unwove the net from around him, and attached the cord to it.

    Sun of Suns 2006

  • Very shortly thereafter, over the crest of the second hill past the other road, beside a high tangle of brush in a dip in the road, and after listening carefully for what I might not sense, I unwove the shield.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • Herald Vanyel, Shadow Stalker, hunted Shadows to their doom They turned all their powers upon him, turned away from other men And although they strove to take him, he unwove their web of gloom.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Herald Vanyel, Shadow Stalker, hunted Shadows to their doom They turned all their powers upon him, turned away from other men And although they strove to take him, he unwove their web of gloom.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Ender picked it up and shook it, until it unwove itself and the pattern in the rug was gone.

    Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott 1985

  • Away from Fee, her brothers, Luke, the unsparing, unthinking domination of her whole life, Meggie discovered pure leisure; a whole kaleidoscope of thought patterns wove and unwove novel designs in her mind.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

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