unthread

Etymology

un- + thread

verb

  1. (transitive) To draw or remove a thread from.
    "Good and evil! good and evil!" thought he; "ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?" 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 62
  2. (transitive) To loosen the connections of.
  3. (transitive) To make one's way through.

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