Unfold

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  • intransitive verb. To open and spread out (something folded); extend.
  • intransitive verb. To remove the coverings from; disclose to view.
  • intransitive verb. To reveal gradually by written or spoken explanation; make known.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To become spread out; open out.
  • intransitive verb. To develop or occur as a series of events or stages.
  • intransitive verb. To be revealed gradually to the understanding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To open the folds of; expand; spread out; change from a folded condition, in any sense of the word fold. To lay open to view or contemplation; make known in all the details; develop; disclose; reveal: as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science.
  • To show, or let be seen; display.
  • To become opened out; be spread apart; become disclosed or developed; develop itself.
  • To release from a fold or pen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To open; to expand; to become disclosed or developed.
  • transitive verb. To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out.
  • transitive verb. To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain.
  • transitive verb. To release from a fold or pen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To undo a folding.
  • verb. To turn out to happen; to develop.
  • verb. To reveal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. develop or come to a promising stage
  • verb. spread out or open from a closed or folded state
  • verb. open to the view
  • verb. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
  • Word Usage
    "Watching this debate unfold is absolutely mind boggling."
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    closed  fold  shut  wrapt  
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    develop  
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    Nolde  ahold  behold  bold  bowled  
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