Meaning of unwind in English

If you unwind something that is wrapped around an object, you unfasten it, and if it unwinds, it becomes unfastened:

In a nearby medical tent, a US Army doctor gently unwinds Metruk's bandage. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

unwind verb ( RELAX )

( also wind down )

to relax and allow your mind to be free from worry after a period of work or some other activity that has made you worried:

A glass of wine in the evening helps me to unwind after work. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

unwind | American Dictionary

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past tense and past participle unwound us / ʌnˈwɑʊnd /

unwind verb ( UNFASTEN )

to unfasten something that is wrapped around an object:

unwind verb ( RELAX )

( also wind down ) to relax after a period of work or anxiety: I’m just going to watch some TV and unwind. (Definition of unwind from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

unwind | Business English

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/ ʌnˈwaɪnd / us

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unwound | unwound to sell shares, etc. that you bought expecting that their price would rise:

Institutional investors caused prices to fall as they unwound positions that they took when they were betting on rising stock prices.

to buy the shares, etc. that you borrowed expecting that their price would go down and that you now need to deliver:

Traders unwound short positions, expecting gasoline would be lower this time of year. to change or remove the effects of something: People's ability to service debt is unwinding. ( also wind down ) to relax and allow your mind to be free from worry after a period of work: The facility was built as a place where casino workers could go and unwind after their shifts.

unwinding

The mark's weakness against the yen is a result of the unwinding of long positions. (Definition of unwind from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of unwind

The surge in investment financing to take advantage of the higher capital allowances available in 1984–85 is still unwinding.

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Because of the exceptionally high leverage and the scale of linkages between risks, this process of unwinding is proving particularly painful.

We have understood, too, what has been his aim and his strategy in the gradual unwinding of detention.

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When we begin, however small the beginning, many problems will start unwinding themselves. Hansard archive

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Only then can the unwinding of sanctions begin. Hansard archive

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He is giving coal an extra chance against nuclear, as a result of the unwinding of the nuclear levy. Hansard archive

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We have got now to go through a process, as it were, of unwinding what has been wound up. Hansard archive

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I hope that, as the area protection grant unwinds, comparisons will be even simpler than they are at present.

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He emphasised that the vast bulk of it was the unwinding of leads and lags. Hansard archive

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First, businesses are in the process of unwinding some of the unplanned stocks that they accumulated last year.

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Unwinding or replacing the transactions would lead to enormous disruption of markets and unpredictable cost to the counterparties.

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The past seven years have seen the largest and most sustained fall in the ratio since the unwinding of the wartime economy.

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We are confronted with high borrowing and, as the recession unwinds much more slowly than we should have liked, borrowing levels will persist.

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What is more, we allowed for considerable increases in wages as we unwound the pay policy. Hansard archive

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No one will think that this unwinding process will be easy. Hansard archive

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Translations of unwind

in Chinese (Traditional) 解開, 解開,打開,鬆開(捲繞之物), 放鬆… in Chinese (Simplified) 解开, 解开,打开,松开(卷绕之物), 放松… in Spanish relajarse, desenrollar… in Portuguese descontrair-se, relaxar, desenrolar… in more languages in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in Catalan in Gujarati in Swedish in Norwegian in Ukrainian in Russian in Bengali in Indonesian in Vietnamese in Italian सोडणे, विश्रांती घेणे… (人)がくつろぐ, (人)をくつろがせる, 緊張(きんちょう)をほぐす… dinlenmek, yorgunluğunu gidermek/atmak, rahatlamak… se détendre, dérouler, (se) dérouler… (zich) afwikkelen, zich ontspannen…

ஒரு பொருளைச் சுற்றிச் சுற்றி இருக்கும் ஒன்றை நீங்கள் அவிழ்த்தால், நீங்கள் அதை அவிழ்க்கிறீர்கள், அது தளர்ந்தால்…

(किसी चीज़ में लिपटी वस्तु को) खोलना, (कड़े परिश्रम के कार्य के बाद चिंतामुक्त होकर) आराम करना… ખોલવું, છોડવું, આરામ કરવો… vikle ud, slappe af… linda (vira, rulla) av, slappna av… merungkai, berehat… abwickeln, abspannen… slappe av, løsne opp, vikle/rulle opp… بل کھولنا, بل اتارنا, پیچ کھولنا… розмотувати(ся), розкручувати(ся), розслаблюватися… расслабляться, успокаиваться, разматывать(ся)…

విప్పు / మీరు ఒక వస్తువు చుట్టూ చుట్టబడిన దానిని విప్పితే, మీరు దానిని విప్పుతారు, అది విప్పినట్లయితే…

يَسْتَرْخي… খুলে দেওয়া, শান্ত করা… odvinout (se), uvolnit se… membuka gulungan, mengendurkan ketegangan… คลี่ออก, ผ่อนคลาย… tháo ra, trải ra, nghỉ ngơi… odprężać się, rozluźnić się, odwijać (się)… distendersi, svolgere, rilassarsi… Need a translator?

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