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View synonyms for uncoil

uncoil

[ uhn-koil ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to unwind from a coiled coil position.


uncoil

/ ʌnˈkɔɪl /

verb

  1. to unwind or become unwound; untwist
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of uncoil1

First recorded in 1705–15; un- 2 + coil 1
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Example Sentences

Instead, we see him shielding his face from the world, the release of tension visible as if a spring has uncoiled in his body.

From Time

Now it was contrary to all the most rigid laws of the porcupine kind to uncoil themselves in the face of danger.

As she spoke that weak thing within her seemed to uncoil, to grow suddenly tremendously strong; she longed to go!

I of course at once told him to uncoil it and get on the arte, from which he was not more than fifteen feet distant.

Carney saw him uncoil from his waist an ordinary packing rope; it was not a lariat, being short.

For a second it seemed as if Cephas Langdon would uncoil and leap at the presumptuous underling with the big chin.

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