unwind

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To separate (something that is wound up)

   to unwind a ball of yarn

2. verb To disentangle
3. verb To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress

   After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.

4. verb To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
5. verb To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
6. verb To undo something.
7. verb To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
8. verb Synonym of unroll (“replace a loop with a sequence”).

Similar words

wind off unroll disentangle unbend unstrain loosen up unlax decompress slow down relax

Often followed by

the and from a in after it with at

Word family

unwinding unwinds unwound