different between woven vs unweave

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wo?v?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??v?n/
• Rhymes: -??v?n

Adjective

woven (not comparable)

1. Fabricated by weaving.

   Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.

2. Interlaced

   The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.

Derived terms

• bewoven

Translations

Noun

woven (plural wovens)

1. A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

Verb

woven

1. past participle of weave

   The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Verb

woven

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of wuiven

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.