Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To separate the strands of; unweave; unwreathe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To disentangle the strands of a braid

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb undo the braids of

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Examples

  • Through the gauze of rage these subtleties are sometimes difficult to unbraid.

    Dem Party Leaders To Super-Dels: Decide This Week 2009

  • Ireach over to unbraid the snarl, and the line breaks.

    Fishing the Delaware River shad run in early spring 2006

  • Sometimes she braided it to “teach it a lesson,” but her hair always won and would unbraid itself by the end of the day and curl into puffs of defiance.

    Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 1999

  • Sometimes she braided it to “teach it a lesson,” but her hair always won and would unbraid itself by the end of the day and curl into puffs of defiance.

    Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 1999

  • Sometimes she braided it to “teach it a lesson,” but her hair always won and would unbraid itself by the end of the day and curl into puffs of defiance.

    Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper 1999

  • She lay perfectly still, her back to him, and allowed him to unbraid her hair.

    Gabriel Hawk's Lady Barton, Beverly 1998

  • In the marriage ceremony, a lock of hair from the Mazonite and her chosen consort were braided together, and to divorce him, she had simply to unbraid the marriage-lock and cast his hair in the hearth-fire.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • "The dasy did on crede (unbraid) hir crownet smale."

    The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

  • Then he sat up and began deliberately to unbraid her hair, while she submitted laughing.

    Mrs. Red Pepper 1912

  • That night, after supper, he saw Challoner unbraid Nanette's glorious hair, and brush it.

    Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

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