UNWINDING Synonyms

• a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions)

• a change for the better

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• time available for ease and relaxation

• freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• the act of making something less tight

• an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates

• activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation

• (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

• (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

• a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

• the act of making less strict

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• the absence of mental stress or anxiety

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• put or confide something in a person or thing

• be inherent or innate in

• lie when dead

• lean in a comfortable resting position

• put in a horizontal position

• to put something (eg trust) in something

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

• make less taut

• become loose or looser or less tight

• cause to feel relaxed

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

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• make less active or fast

• 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