Unknit vs Untie - What's the difference?
unknit | untie |
To unravel.
:Exhaustion will unknit even the ordered mind.
To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
As verbs the difference between unknit and untie
is that unknit is to unravel while untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.unknit
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Synonyms
* (undo knitted stitches) tinkuntie
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Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .