单词 | unreave |
释义 | unreavev. Now rare (English regional (northern) and poetic in later use). transitive. To unravel. ΘΚΠ 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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