verb
- to remove thread from a needle or from something that has been threaded
- to find one’s way out of something complex or confusing
Usage: figurative
Examples
- She carefully unthreaded the needle before putting away her sewing kit.
- The jeweler had to unthread the beads to repair the broken necklace.
- He tried to unthread himself from the complicated legal situation.
- The detective worked to unthread the mystery surrounding the missing documents.
- After the project failed, they needed to unthread all the tangled partnerships.
- She unthreaded the fishing line that had gotten caught in the branches.