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unfold - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To open and spread out (something folded); extend.
- intransitive verb To remove the coverings from; disclose to view.
- intransitive verb To reveal gradually by written or spoken explanation; make known.
- intransitive verb To become spread out; open out.
- intransitive verb To develop or occur as a series of events or stages.
- intransitive verb To be revealed gradually to the understanding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To open the folds of; expand; spread out; change from a folded condition, in any sense of the word fold. To lay open to view or contemplation; make known in all the details; develop; disclose; reveal: as, to
unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science. - To show, or let be seen; display.
- To become opened out; be spread apart; become disclosed or developed; develop itself.
- To release from a fold or pen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.
- transitive verb To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out.
- transitive verb To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain.
- transitive verb To release from a fold or pen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To undo a
folding . - verb intransitive To turn out to
happen ; todevelop . - verb transitive To
reveal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb develop or come to a promising stage
- verb spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- verb open to the view
- verb extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
Etymologies
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Examples
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The whole organization will unfold from the inside out, or from the bottom all the way up.
*Third* time on the ACORN Hooker Advisory Train. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Watching the events unfold is like hearing a delicate ballad played at stadium levels of noise.
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Watching the horror unfold from the other side of the world, still we here in Australia were touched by it.
Inching along ... karenmiller 2009
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Some of them stayed in New Orleans through the storm, and others watched it unfold from a distance.
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She had felt detached from all the open grieving and eulogizing and commiserating as though she had been watching events unfold from the director's chair behind the camera.
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I prefer to watch my drama unfold from a tree or a box blind.
Hunters on Acting 2009
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She had felt detached from all the open grieving and eulogizing and commiserating as though she had been watching events unfold from the director's chair behind the camera.
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Watching this debate unfold is absolutely mind boggling.
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I prefer to watch my drama unfold from a tree or a box blind.
Hunters on Acting 2009
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Some of them stayed in New Orleans through the storm, and others watched it unfold from a distance.
Related Words
synonyms (199)
Words with the same meaning
- account for
- affect
- allegorize
- amplify
- attend
- bare
- be revealed
- become of
- betoken
- branch
- branch out
- brandish
- break the seal
- breathe
- bring forth
- bring forward
- bring into view
- bring out
- bring to light
- bring to notice
- clarify
- clear
- clear up
- come about
- come of
- come out
- crack
- dangle
- decipher
- demonstrate
- demythologize
- deobstruct
- deploy
- descant
- detail
- develop
- dilate
- disclose
- discover
- disinvolve
- dismask
- disperse
- display
- dissolve
- divulge
- dope out
- dramatize
- draw the veil
- elaborate
- elucidate
- embody
- enact
- end
- enlarge
- enlarge upon
- enlighten
- ensue
- euhemerize
- eventuate
- evidence
- evince
- evolve
- exemplify
- exhibit
- expand
- expatiate
- explain
- explain away
- explicate
- expose
- expose to view
- exposit
- expound
- express
- extend
- fall out
- fan
- fan out
- fare
- figure out
- flare
- flaunt
- flourish
- follow
- free
- give reason for
- give sign
- give the meaning
- give token
- happen
- highlight
- illuminate
- illustrate
- impart
- incarnate
- indicate
- issue
- lay bare
- lay open
- let daylight in
- let out
- make clear
- make plain
- manifest
- materialize
- mean
- occur
- open
- open up
- outspread
- outstretch
- overgrow
- overrun
- pan out
- parade
- particularize
- patefy
- perform
- popularize
- present
- produce
- prove
- prove to be
- puzzle out
- raise the curtain
- ramify
- rationalize
- rehearse in extenso
- relate at large
- represent
- resolve
- result
- reveal
- roll out
- separate
- set forth
- shed light upon
- show
- show forth
- show how
- show the way
- show up
- simplify
- solve
- spell out
- splay
- spotlight
- spraddle
- sprangle
- sprawl
- spread
- spread like wildfire
- spread out
- straighten out
- stretch out
- strip bare
- take place
- terminate
- throw light upon
- token
- trot out
- turn out
- unblock
- uncase
- unclench
- uncloak
- unclog
- unclutch
- uncoil
- uncork
- uncover
- uncurtain
- undo
- undouble
- undrape
- unfoul
- unfurl
- unkennel
- unlatch
- unlock
- unmask
- unpack
- unplug
- unravel
- unreel
- unriddle
- unroll
- unscreen
- unseal
- unsheathe
- unshroud
- unshut
- unstop
- unveil
- unwind
- unwrap
- wave
- widen
- work out
hypernyms (8)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (22)
Words that are found in similar contexts
cross-references (1)
Cross-references
rhymes (49)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Nolde
- ahold
- behold
- bold
- bowled
- cajoled
- cold
- consoled
- controlled
- decontrolled
- dold
- doled
- enfold
- enrolled
- extolled
- fold
- foretold
- fourfold
- gold
- golde
- hold
- holde
- holed
- mold
- mould
- nold
- old
- olde
- outsold
- oversold
- paroled
- patrolled
- polled
- remold
- resold
- rolled
- scold
- sold
- strolled
- told
- tolled
- twofold
- uncontrolled
- undersold
- unsold
- untold
- uphold
- withhold
- wold
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