unweave

English

Etymology

Verb

unweave (third-person singular simple present unweaves, present participle unweaving, simple past unwove or unweaved, past participle unwoven or unweaved)

(transitive) To undo something woven.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […]‎, 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:
  Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.
  The spelling has been modernized.
- 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in Dubin’s Lives‎, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 20:
  Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.

Translations

to undo something woven

Latin: extexō

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