Verb

To undo a folding.

* Herbert

Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To turn out; to happen; to develop.

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Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.

To reveal.

* , I.v.

Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing  To what I shall unfold .

To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development.

* (William Shakespeare)

Unfold the passion of my love.

To release from a fold or pen.

Verb

(label) To orbit a central point.

To turn on an axis.

*

It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

(label) To recur in cycles.

(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :

He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.