unspinv.
(un- prefix2 1a. Cf. Dutch ontspinnen.)
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)]
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converta1425
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recommencea1513
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retrievea1596
remetamorphose1598
remorphize1603
reconvert1609
unlive1621
unravel1637
relapse1652
to bring about1680
uncoin1833
unpay1842
reset1846
revert1856
unweb1882
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > loosen, unfasten, or untie [verb (transitive)] > untwist, unravel, etc.
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unlacea1450
untwindc1460
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unreave1593
unravel1603
ravel1607
unwrithe1611
uncluea1616
unwork1623
unperplex1660
untwirla1703
unlay1726
disentwine1814
unbraid1828
unmesha1849
disintertwine1861
unplait1865
tiffle out1880
unleeze1889
1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 416/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Oh cruell fates! the which so soone, his vitall thred vnsponne.
1638 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione (new ed.) 1176 My teeming fancy strives..to..make those garden~minutes see the sun Entombed in darkness, and the earth unspun Ere they expire.
1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Qq4v Is't not in your power to change, and un-spinne their decrees?
a1703 J. Pomfret Last Epiph. vi Whilst backward all the Threads shall haste to be unspun.
1845 J. B. Mozley Ess. (1878) II. 102 The web was respun, that it might be unspun again.
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