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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And Tony Day is the key to unraveling that plot and Sweetpea’s got the bit between her teeth.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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But Vargas said that within days of the family’s being detained and sent to the prisonlike facility in South Texas — where guards patrol the halls and the lights never turn off — her daughter began to unravel.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Unweave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unweave. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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