different between unweave vs unreave
unweave
English
Etymology
un- +? weave
Verb
unweave (third-person singular simple present unweaves, present participle unweaving, simple past unwove or unweaved, past participle unwoven or unweaved)
- (transitive) To undo something woven.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[1]
- Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.
- 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter One, p. 20,[2]
- Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,[1]
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unreave
English
Etymology
See unreeve.
Verb
unreave (third-person singular simple present unreaves, present participle unreaving, simple past and past participle unreaved)
- (obsolete, transitive) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,[1]
- Penelope for her Vlisses sake,
- Deuiz’d a Web her wooers to deceaue:
- in which the worke that she all day did make
- the same at night she did againe vnreaue,
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23,[1]
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