unthread

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Definition of unthread

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To draw or remove a thread from.

“Its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright / With love, and kept all phantom fear aloof / From the poor girl by magic of their light, / The while it did unthread the horrid woof / Of the late darken'd time,— […]”
“"Good and evil! good and evil!" thought he; "ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?"”

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verb

(transitive)To draw or remove a thread from.

“Its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright / With love, and kept all phantom fear aloof / From the poor girl by magic of their light, / The while it did unthread the horrid woof / Of the late darken'd time,— […]”
“"Good and evil! good and evil!" thought he; "ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?"”
(transitive)To loosen the connections of.
(transitive)To make one's way through.

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From un- + thread.

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