unknit

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Definition of unknit

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

To unravel.

“Exhaustion will unknit even the ordered mind.”
“Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.”
“[S]he unknit her fingers from those of the King, and rose and stood before him.”

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verb

To unravel.

“Exhaustion will unknit even the ordered mind.”
“Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.”
“[S]he unknit her fingers from those of the King, and rose and stood before him.”
To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.

adj

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Middle English unknitten, unknetten, uncnütten, from Old English uncnyttan, equivalent to un- + knit.

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