unthread

present singular third person unthreads · participle present unthreading · participle past unthreaded · past unthreaded

1. transitiveTo draw or remove a thread from.

   "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?"

   1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 62

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   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,— […]

   1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVII, page 67

2. transitiveTo loosen the connections of.
3. transitiveTo make one's way through.