as in to unravel
to separate the various strands of
if you want the scarf to be perfect, you're going to have to unweave the last three inches and fix the mistake
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Recent Examples of unweave
Webb contains two instruments that will allow scientists to unravel the wavelengths of infrared signals from solar systems beyond ours—to unweave the colors of the infrared rainbow, so to speak.
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
But the gesture only draws attention to itself, unweaving Shakespeare’s web.
—Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
Yamahira — who now lives in Seattle after living in New York, London and Tokyo — unweaves canvasses, releasing the individual fibers to reveal the true nature of a form that usually plays a supporting role.
—Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
To interrogate shadows
or go into terrain & unweave the map.
—David C. Ward, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
Geometry, physics, optics, and a bit of luck may unweave the rainbow, but closed-mindedness and dogma puts it back together.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2013
Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
But the gesture only draws attention to itself, unweaving Shakespeare’s web.
—Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
Yamahira — who now lives in Seattle after living in New York, London and Tokyo — unweaves canvasses, releasing the individual fibers to reveal the true nature of a form that usually plays a supporting role.
—Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
To interrogate shadows
or go into terrain & unweave the map.
—David C. Ward, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
Geometry, physics, optics, and a bit of luck may unweave the rainbow, but closed-mindedness and dogma puts it back together.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unweave
unravel
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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The Oscar-winning actress stars as Grace, a mother living in Montana who begins to show signs of postpartum psychosis, her mental distress unraveling her relationship with Jackson (Robert Pattinson).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Oct. 2025
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