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Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.
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To separate (something that is wound up)
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Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?
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To disentangle
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To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress
example
After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.
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To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
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To undo something.
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To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
By winding in the main rope the loaded cars are hauled towards the engine, dragging behind them the tail-rope, which unwinds from its drum.
A specific region of the DNA molecule, called a cistron, unwinds.
Actor Patrick Dempsey, aka Dr. McSteamy from the hit television series Grey's Anatomy, unwinds from his busy career as a television doctor by literally going around circles.