different between inweave vs unweave

English

Alternative forms

• enweave

Etymology

in- +? weave

Verb

inweave (third-person singular simple present inweaves, present participle inweaving, simple past inwove or inweaved, past participle inwoven or inweaved)

1. (archaic, literary) To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 570,^[1]

     And thou, faire Phoebus, in thy colours bright

     Wast there enwouen […]

   • 1762, David Hume, The History of England: from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Accession of Henry VII, London: A. Millar, Chapter 2, p. 57,^[2]

     [The enchanted standard] contained the figure of a raven, which had been inwove by the three sisters of Hinguar and Hubba with many magical incantations […]

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 135,^[5]

     No sooner had the mournful song run its course than the minister took to the altar and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort. […] His voice enweaved itself through the somber vapors left by the dirge.

English

Etymology

un- +? weave

Verb

unweave (third-person singular simple present unweaves, present participle unweaving, simple past unwove or unweaved, past participle unwoven or unweaved)

1. (transitive) To undo something woven.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,^[1]

     Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.

   • 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter One, p. 20,^[2]

     Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.