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unbraid - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb
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verb disentangle the strands of a braid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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Through the gauze of rage these subtleties are sometimes difficult to unbraid .
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Ireach over to unbraid the snarl, and the line breaks.
Fishing the Delaware River shad run in early spring 2006
Sometimes she braided it to “teach it a lesson,” but her hair always won and would unbraid itself by the end of the day and curl into puffs of defiance.
Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 1999
Sometimes she braided it to “teach it a lesson,” but her hair always won and would unbraid itself by the end of the day and curl into puffs of defiance.
Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 1999
Sometimes she braided it to “teach it a lesson,” but her hair always won and would unbraid itself by the end of the day and curl into puffs of defiance.
Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 1999
She lay perfectly still, her back to him, and allowed him to unbraid her hair.
Gabriel Hawk's Lady Barton, Beverly 1998
In the marriage ceremony, a lock of hair from the Mazonite and her chosen consort were braided together, and to divorce him, she had simply to unbraid the marriage-lock and cast his hair in the hearth-fire.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
"The dasy did on crede (unbraid ) hir crownet smale."
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various
Then he sat up and began deliberately to unbraid her hair, while she submitted laughing.
Mrs. Red Pepper 1912
That night, after supper, he saw Challoner unbraid Nanette's glorious hair, and brush it.
Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903
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