Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To unfold, as a piece of paper money.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To unfold; render single.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unfold, or render single.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
unfold , or rendersingle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To undouble him, that he might fit into a coffin, they had been forced to lug him to a fire and thaw him out a bit.
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To undouble him, that he might fit into a coffin, they had been forced to lug him to a fire and thaw him out a bit.
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To undouble him, that he might fit into a coffin, they had been forced to lug him to a fire and thaw him out a bit.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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To undouble him, that he might fit into a coffin, they had been forced to lug him to a fire and thaw him out a bit.
League of Old Men 1902
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Billy to brace his huge foot on the round of the chair, and to hold down the back with his hands, Cricket and Hilda, with another vigorous pull, managed to undouble Zaidee.
Cricket at the Seashore Elizabeth Weston Timlow 1896
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The dirty fist in the young surgeon's pocket was obliged to undouble itself, and come out of its ambush disarmed.
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Although it would offer him the chance to undouble his pawns, White cannot contemplate 14 bxc5?
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Shown backwards it is a heroic film about human experience: A man trapped in the logic of ghosts, trapped in a grayscale 2-D flat world, a photograph inside history, frozen in spectral finity: is unfrozen, and is lured outside of a maze where both his wife and son proceed to ‘undouble’ him and assist him in his war with his self and is finally able to drive away from the Overlook, from the lunarscape of this unreal summit and into a perfect mirror, earthmade.
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Shown backwards it is a heroic film about human experience: A man trapped in the logic of ghosts, trapped in a grayscale 2-D flat world, a photograph inside history, frozen in spectral finity: is unfrozen, and is lured outside of a maze where both his wife and son proceed to ‘undouble’ him and assist him in his war with his self and is finally able to drive away from the Overlook, from the lunarscape of this unreal summit and into a perfect mirror, earthmade.
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A profound silence reigned throughout the assembly, a pallid dread had taken possession of the countenances of the punters, and restless inquietude stretched every muscle of the face of him who kept the bank; and the lady of the house, who was seated next to him, observed with lynx's eyes every play made, and noted those who tallied, and made them undouble their cards with a severe exactness, though mixed with a politeness, which she thought necessary not to frighten away her customers.
Candide 1918
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