What are some opposite words for unfold?
Antonyms for unfold
ʌnˈfoʊldun·fold
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term unfold.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
unfold
Amplify is now rarely used in the sense of increase, to add material substance, bulk, volume, or the like; it is now almost wholly applied to discourse or writing, signifying to make fuller in statement, whether with or without adding matter of importance, as by stating fully what was before only implied, or by adding illustrations to make the meaning more readily apprehended, etc. The chief difficulty of very young writers is to amplify, to get beyond the bare curt statement by developing, expanding, unfolding the thought. The chief difficulty of those who have more material and experience is to condense sufficiently. So, in the early days of our literature amplify was used in the favorable sense; but at present this word and most kindred words are coming to share the derogatory meaning that has long attached to expatiate. We may develop a thought, expand an illustration, extend a discussion, expatiate on a hobby, dilate on something joyous or sad, enlarge a volume, unfold a scheme, widen the range of treatment.
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abbreviate, abridge, amputate, boil down, condense, curtail, cut down, epitomize, reduce, retrench, sum up, summarizeSynonyms:
amplify, augment, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, extend, increase, widenPreposition:
To amplify on or upon the subject is needless. Amplify this matter by illustrations.
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blossom, blossom out, blossom forth, unfoldverb
develop or come to a promising stage
"Youth blossomed into maturity"
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turn up, fold up, foldSynonyms:
bloom, open, extend, stretch, blossom, flower, spread, stretch out, spread out, blossom out, blossom forthunfoldverb
open to the view
"A walk through town will unfold many interesting buildings"
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fold up, fold, turn upSynonyms:
stretch out, open, extend, stretch, blossom, spread, spread out, blossom out, blossom forthunfold, stretch, stretch out, extendverb
extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
"Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"
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turn up, fold up, foldSynonyms:
gallop, crane, blossom, widen, run, lead, continue, debase, load, poke out, extend, blossom forth, protract, stretch out, draw out, offer, put out, carry, spread out, open, go, stretch, stretch forth, pass, adulterate, dilute, reach out, exsert, stretch along, spread, expand, cover, prolong, strain, hold out, blossom out, elongate, broadenunfold, spread, spread out, openverb
spread out or open from a closed or folded state
"open the map"; "spread your arms"
Antonyms:
turn up, fold up, foldSynonyms:
fan out, blossom out, circularise, dissipate, open up, overspread, disseminate, pass around, spread, spread out, broadcast, afford, turn out, open, stretch, blossom, give, stretch out, extend, scatter, circularize, expand, splay, go around, propagate, blossom forth, rotate, circulate, disperse, distribute, string out, diffuse
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shellfish
undoing something
Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019
How to use unfold in a sentence?
I have said for a long time that when you are trying to understand how infectious disease is going to unfold, you should rely on history as well as models.
I sometimes wonder if we have a situation where we have someone who is a law professor and is very cerebral and has this universal sense of how things are supposed to unfold under international law, on the other side, you have someone who is convinced he lives in a region called the Middle East and believes that a lot of the categories that they teach in law school are not always applicable in this neighborhood.
The next 14 weeks I think will be the worst of the pandemic, people don’t want to hear that, but if we look at what these variants are doing, particularly this one from the United Kingdom, and see what it did in Europe, see what it’s done in the Middle East, it’s now beginning to start that here in the U.S. We are going to see that unfold.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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