unwind

Meanings

Verb

• To separate (something that is wound up)
• To disentangle
• To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress
• To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
• To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
• To undo something.
• To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.

Noun

• Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.

Origin

• From Middle English unwinden, from Old English unwindan, from Proto-Germanic *andawindaną; equivalent to un- + wind. Cognate with Dutch ontwinden.