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Unscroll vs Inscroll - What's the difference?

unscroll | inscroll |

As verbs the difference between unscroll and inscroll

is that unscroll is to open or unfold progressively, as a scroll does while inscroll is to write on a scroll; to record.

unscroll

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To open or unfold progressively, as a scroll does.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 30, author=The New York Times, title=Zimbabweans Vote, Desperate for Change, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=?Lines were long at the polling stations here well before morning had unscrolled its first light. }}

    inscroll

    English

    Alternative forms

    * inscrol

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write on a scroll; to record.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)