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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