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unfold

[uhn-fohld]

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verb (used with object)

to bring out of a folded state; spread or open out: Unfold your arms.

to spread out or lay open to view.

to reveal or display.

to reveal or disclose in words, especially by careful or systematic exposition; set forth; explain.

verb (used without object)

to become unfolded; open.

to develop.

to become clear, apparent, or known: The protagonist's character unfolds as the story reaches its climax.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English unfolden, Old English unfealdan; cognate with German entfalten. See un-², fold¹

Related forms

un·fold·a·ble, adjective

un·fold·er, noun

un·fold·ment, noun

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unfold (ʌnˈfəʊld)

—vb
1.	to open or spread out or be opened or spread out from a folded state
2.	to reveal or be revealed: the truth unfolds
3.	to develop or expand or be developed or expanded

un'folder

—n

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unfold

O.E. unfealdan, "to open or unwrap the folds of," also fig., "to disclose, reveal," from un- (2) + fold (v.). Cf. M.Du. ontvouden, Ger. entfalten. Refl. sense is attested from late 14c.

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"The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain."

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