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Meaning of unthread | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To draw or remove a thread from.
    transitive
  2. To loosen the connections of.
    transitive
  3. To make one's way through.
    transitive

Equivalents

Italiano sfilare sfilarsi

Examples

“Its eyes, though wild, were still all dewy bright / With love, and kept all phantom fear aloof / From the poor girl by magic of their light, / The while it did unthread the horrid woof / Of the late darken'd time,— […]”
“"Good and evil! good and evil!" thought he; "ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?"”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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