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uncoiled

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un·coil  (n-koil)
tr. & intr.v. un·coiled, un·coil·ing, un·coils
To unwind or untwist or to become unwound or untwisted.
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Adj.1.uncoiled - no longer coiled
coiled - curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck"


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The huge, snakelike body coiled and uncoiled about its prey.
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.
The First Mate uncoiled himself like a spring with a nice, throaty, comfortable sound, half purr, half meow, stretched his paws in air, turned over and coiled himself up again.
 
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