unwreathe

American  

[uhn-reeth] / ʌnˈrið /

verb (used with object)

unwreathed, unwreathing

1. to bring out of a wreathed condition; untwist; untwine.

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Etymology

Origin of unwreathe

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ² + wreathe

Example Sentences

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unwreathed unwreathing

Now the private man has been mercilessly unwreathed in his startlingly venomous diaries, whose publication he arranged out of what one critic described as an impulse toward "posthumous suicide."

From Time Magazine Archive

Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor For 'alf o' creation she owns, wrote the Empire's unwreathed laureate, Kipling, his pen quivering with awe.

From Time Magazine Archive

He unwreathed his arms and stood up, yawned, and very slowly went upstairs to the gallery where he had learned that the Countess was awaiting him.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

But there was a tremulousness in his bushy eyebrows; his forehead half unwreathed itself; he continued to eat more slowly, and as if with appreciation of the viands.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

All the Campagna spreads before my sight, The mouldering wall, the Caesars' tombs unwreathed, Rome and the Tiber, and the yellow light, Wherein the honey-colored blossom breathed.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

Yet as he touched her cheek so and her eyes so dwelt on him, suddenly her head fell heavily upon his breast, hiding her face, even while her unwreathing arms held more closely.

From A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson