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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(transitive) To separate (something that is wound up) / (transitive, obsolete) To disentangle / (intransitive, slang) To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress

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unwind

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unwind

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Verb

transitive obsolete intransitive slang

(transitive) To separate (something that is wound up) / (transitive, obsolete) To disentangle / (intransitive, slang) To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress

Japanese Meaning

巻かれた状態のものをほどく、解く / (古い用法) からまりを解きほぐす / (俗語) リラックスする、くつろぐ、ストレスを解消する

What is this buttons?

She used a pair of scissors to carefully unwind the tangled spool of thread.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女はハサミを使って、もつれた糸巻きを慎重にほどいた。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To separate (something that is wound up)

to unwind a ball of yarn

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(transitive, obsolete) To disentangle

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(intransitive, slang) To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress

After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

(intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

Sense（5）

(transitive, finance) To close out a position, especially a complicated position.

Sense（6）

(transitive, finance) To undo something.

Sense（7）

(transitive, programming) To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.

If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

unwinds

（ present singular third-person ）

unwinding

（ participle present ）

unwound

（ participle past ）

unwound

（ past ）

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