unknit

present singular third person unknits · participle present unknitting · participle past unknitted · past unknitted

1. To unravel.

   Exhaustion will unknit even the ordered mind.

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   Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.

   c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1

   [S]he unknit her fingers from those of the King, and rose and stood before him.

   1904 Christmas, Laura Dayton Fessenden, chapter I, in Hatsu: A Story of Egypt, Highland Park, Ill.: The Canterbury Press, part I, page 4

2. To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.

   Synonyms: tink

1. not comparableNot knitted.