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unroll.

To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.

    transitive
    Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.
  2. To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.

    intransitive
    We will have to see how the events unroll.
  3. To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree English un- Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- Proto-Indo-European *Hróth₂eh₂der. Proto-Italic *rotā Latin rota Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin rotulader. Latin rotulāre Old French roelerbor. Middle English rollen English roll English unroll From un- + roll.

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