UNTHREADING Antonyms

• the act of making something tighter

• tie or link together

• spin, wind, or twist together

• spin, wind, or twist together

• make lacework by knotting or looping

• make a loop in

• a tight cluster of people or things

• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving

• any long object resembling a thin line

• the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together

• the raised helical rib going around a screw

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• pass a thread through

• remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string

• pass through or into

• thread on or as if on a string