verb
definition
To unwind or untwist (something).
definition
To unwind or untwist oneself.
adjective
definition
Not (or no longer) coiled
Examples of uncoiled in a Sentence
As she walked, the fear and helplessness uncoiled, loosening their grip on her chest.
Cyclosurus, shell uncoiled.
A characteristic feature is the one-sided (dorsiventral) inflorescence, well illustrated in forget-me-not and other species of Myosotis; the cyme is at first closely coiled, becoming uncoiled as the flowers open.
The alimentary canal is uncoiled and cylindrical, and gives rise laterally to large gastric glands, which are more than a single pair in number (two to six pairs), and may assume the form of simple caeca.
As I moved into the water my instructor coiled and uncoiled the line as it came in and out.
They learned that spiral springs could be wound and uncoiled to move the hour hand of the clock.
Around them, the mist swirled, thinned, then uncoiled itself until it, too, vanished.
The first thing they noticed was that springs uncoiled at a more consistent pace if it was not wound tightly.
She shuddered involuntarily as it slowly uncoiled, stretched across the porch and eventually disappeared off the edge into the tall grass.
By contrast the length of an uncoiled DNA macromolecule with its 1.5 x 10 8 nucleotides is about 5 cm.