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单词 unreave
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unreavev.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːv/, U.S. /ˌənˈriv/
Forms: 1500s–1600s vnreaue, 1600s unreaven (past participle), 1700s– unreave.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, reave v.3
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < un- prefix2 + reave v.3 (although this is first attested slightly later). Compare slightly later unreeve v., unravel v., and perhaps also later reeve v.3
Now rare (English regional (northern) and poetic in later use).
transitive. To unravel.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > extricate from difficulties
windc1535
unreave1593
disentangle1611
explicate1614
extricatea1631
districate1632
untwist1637
exintricate1661
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.
untwinec1407
unlacea1450
untwindc1460
untwist1538
unweave1542
distwine1562
feaze1568
unpleat1572
unspin1587
unplat1589
unwreathe1591
unreave1593
unravel1603
ravel1607
unwrithe1611
uncluea1616
unwork1623
unperplex1660
untwirla1703
unlay1726
disentwine1814
unbraid1828
unmesha1849
disintertwine1861
unplait1865
tiffle out1880
unleeze1889
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church To Rdr. sig. ¶4 The warpe and webbe of the laie Presbyterie..hath so enfolded some mens wits, that they cannot vnreaue their cogitations from admiring their newe founde Consistories.
1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) Post-script 309 This Rebellion against him hath been woven up; is it not therefore the more probable, that the same may be unreaven againe?
1779 T. Marsh Eighty-eight Lines Elegy 6 There he unreav'd the life-spun twine: And one fond look just glancing round.
1870 E. Cook Poet. Wks. 551 Busy-fingered Care unreaves The garments as we put them on.
1917 A. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 593 The red thread to the blue thread cleaves. The web is plaiting which nothing unreaves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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