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View synonyms for unroll
unroll
[ uhn-rohl ]
verb (used with object)
- to open or spread out (something rolled or coiled):
to unroll a bolt of fabric.
- to lay open; display; reveal.
- Obsolete. to strike from a roll or register.
verb (used without object)
- to become unrolled or spread out:
The scrolls unroll easily.
- to become continuously visible or apparent:
The landscape unrolled before our eyes.
unroll
/ ʌnˈrəʊl /
verb
- to open out or unwind (something rolled, folded, or coiled) or (of something rolled, etc) to become opened out or unwound
- to make or become visible or apparent, esp gradually; unfold
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The steely lake, and the rough-ridged, black-green sea of the fir-tops began to unroll below him.
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Soften the leaves by soaking in hot water, unroll carefully and examine with a hand lens or low power of the microscope.
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The author began in the previous verse to unroll his magnificent record of the elders.
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Then in an instant there seemed to unroll before him the long, slow years of the desolation of that home without Jamie.
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Unroll thy long scroll and say, have they won who first reached the goal, heedless of a brother's rights?
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