UNWIND Synonyms

• undo what has been twined together

• cause to become untwisted

• cause to become unblocked

• become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

• make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• cause to feel relaxed

• restore to its uncompressed form

• decrease the pressure of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• release from entanglement of difficulty

• extricate from entanglement

• free from involvement or entanglement

• separate the tangles of

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• straighten up or out; make straight

• unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay

• free from flexure

• make less taut

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• release from mental strain, tension, or formality

• cause to feel relaxed

• reverse the winding or twisting of

• unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state

• cause to feel relaxed

• cause to feel relaxed

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• reduce the speed of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• reverse the winding or twisting of