Meanings
verbunweave (third-person singular simple present unweaves, present participle unweaving, simple past unwove or unweaved, past participle unwoven or unweaved)
present singular third person unweaves · participle present unweaving · past unwove · past unweaved · participle past unwoven · participle past unweaved
- transitiveTo undo something woven.
Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.
1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC1 more example
Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.
1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 20
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Latin extexō
- extexōto undo something woven
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APA
unweave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unweave
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Chicago
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