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unwound

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un·wound  (n-wound)
v.
Past tense and past participle of unwind.
unwound [ʌnˈwaʊnd]
vb
the past tense and past participle of unwind
Translations
unwound unwind
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A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Here Alice wound two or three turns of the worsted round the kitten's neck, just to see how it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again.
Through the Looking Glass by Carroll, Lewis View in context
It lay so hidden, and the way to it was so hard to find, that he himself could not have found it out had not a wise-woman given him a reel of thread which possessed a marvelous property: when he threw it before him it unwound itself and showed him the way.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
 
 
 
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