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unwind

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Verb

  1. To separate (something that is wound up)
  2. To disentangle
  3. To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress
  4. To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
  5. To close out a position, especially a complicated position.
  6. To undo something.
  7. To navigate back through (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc.
  8. To unravel or explain.

Noun

  1. Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something.

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