Word Meanings - UNBRAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

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• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• UNRAVELMENT
  The act of unraveling, or the state of being unraveled.
• DISENTANGLE
  1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To extricate from complication and
• UNRAVEL
  1. To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking. 2. Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot. 3. To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into
• BRAIDING
  1. The act of making or using braids. 2. Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• DISENTANGLEMENT
  The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• IMBRAID
  See EMBRAID
• UNBRAID
  To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.
• EMBRAID
  1. To braid up, as hair. Spenser. 2. To upbraid. Sir T. Elyot.
• UPBRAID
  twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregedha to draw, brandish, braid, 1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
• ABRAID
  To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. Chaucer. (more info) AS. abredgan to shake, draw; pref. a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig.
• INSEPARATELY
  Inseparably. Cranmer.