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Unwound vs Inwound - What's the difference?

unwound | inwound |

As a verb unwound

is (unwind).

As an adjective inwound is

enwound.

unwound

English

Verb

(head)
  • (unwind)

    • unwind

    English

    Verb

  • To wind off; to loose or separate; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread, to unwind a ball of yarn
    • Could you unwind about a foot of ribbon so I can finish the package?
  • (obsolete) To disentangle
  • * 1836 , , The Works of Richard Hooker , Volume 4, page 27:
    • ... but being not so skilful as in every point to unwind themselves where the snares of glossing speech do lie to entangle them, ...
  • (slang) To relax; to chill out; as, to rest and relieve of stress
    • After work, I like to unwind by smoking a pipe while reading the paper.
  • To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

    • Related terms

    * wind

    inwound

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • enwound
  • *{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Hamlin Garland, title=A Daughter of the Middle Border, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I decided to make my permanent residence in the East, and my wife and daughters whose affections were so deeply inwound with the Midland, loyally consented to follow, although it was a sad surrender for them. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=A Channel Passage and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Round the border hemmed with high deep hedges round Go the children, peering over or between Where the dense bright oval wall of box inwound , Reared about the roses fast within it bound, Gives them grace to glance at glories else unseen. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=The Tale of Balen, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then wept for woe the damsel bound With iron and with anguish round, That none to help her grief was found Or loose the inextricably inwound Grim curse that girt her life with grief And made a burden of her breath, Harsh as the bitterness of death. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=Erechtheus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound It shall crown as a heifer's for slaughter the forehead for marriage uncrowned? }}