different between unleave vs unweave

unleave

English

Etymology

un- +? leave

Verb

unleave (third-person singular simple present unleaves, present participle unleaving, simple past and past participle unleaved)

  1. (transitive) To remove the leaves from.
  2. (intransitive) To lose leaves.

Derived terms

  • unleaved
  • unleaving

Anagrams

  • venulae

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unweave

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.

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