verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled. transitive

   "Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent."

2. 2
   unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state wordnet
3. 3
   To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold. intransitive

   "We will have to see how the events unroll."

4. 4
   reverse the winding or twisting of wordnet
5. 5
   To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization. transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms

unfurlunwindunwindbarebreak the sealbring to light

Antonyms

All antonyms

bendcurlroll up

Example

More examples

"Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent."

Etymology

From un- + roll.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.