Unspin

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven). transitive

    "They cannot unspin or unweave themselves, they are threads either of warp or woof."

  2. 2
    To counteract fate. figuratively, transitive

    "Since pen and ink cannot alter facts, nor clotho herself unspin the thread of destiny ( § 39 ) , the historian's sole business is to narrate what has happened;"

  3. 3
    To untwist (something that is twisted or wound) ambitransitive

    "I contemplated "unspinning" everything into the two separate colors, but knew I did not have the patience to unwind that much yarn."

  4. 4
    To stop (something) from spinning.

    "You have to unspin it or the whole world will be sucked down into it."

  5. 5
    To unmake. transitive

    "the garments of they righeousness are light as the web of gossamer, and shall be blown away by the breath of the Eternal, in that day when he will unspin all that nature hath ever woven."

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  1. 6
    To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.

    "It was an impulse to use art to unspin poisonous “social/psycho/spiritual” formations."

  2. 7
    To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.

    "Around the pressroom, there was a palpable sense of satisfaction from knowing that, on this rare occasion, sportswriters and broadcasters could unspin the corporate spin, restore the proper pecking order to the basketball universe."

  3. 8
    To disentangle. transitive

    "It took about six of us to unspin that web, but finally the whole mess was lowered to the deck ."

  4. 9
    To happen; to unfold; to develop.

    "My life bifurcated. On half of it continued to unspin itself gently in the parklands of the Embassy, the other in and out of government offices, getting a little tangled in the process,"

Etymology

From un- + spin.

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