unweave

English

Etymology

un- +‎ weave

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To undo something woven.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […]‎^[1], 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^[2], 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