Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
UNWIND
relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed
(verb) cause to feel relaxed; “A hot bath always relaxes me”
relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
(verb) become less tense, rest, or take one’s ease; “He relaxed in the hot tub”; “Let’s all relax after a hard day’s work”
unwind, wind off, unroll
(verb) reverse the winding or twisting of; “unwind a ball of yarn”
unwind, disentangle
(verb) separate the tangles of
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
unwind (third-person singular simple present unwinds, present participle unwinding, simple past and past participle unwound)
(transitive) To separate (something that is wound up)
Synonyms: untwist, untwine
(transitive, obsolete) To disentangle
(intransitive, slang) To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress
(intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
(transitive, finance) To undo something.
(transitive, programming) To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
Noun
unwind (plural unwinds)
Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
Source: Wiktionary
Un*wind", v. t. Etym: [AS. unwindan. See 1st Un-, and Wind to coil.]
1. To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
2. To disentangle. [Obs.] Hooker.
Un*wind", v. i.
Definition: To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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