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,^[1]

     Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.

   • 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter One, p. 20,^[2]

     Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.