unwind

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNWIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive unwound. 1. To wind off; to loose or separate what is wound or convolved; as, to unwind thread or a ball. 2. To disentangle. UNWIND, verb intransitive To admit evolution.
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