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untwist

[uhn-twist] / ʌnˈtwɪst /










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And Shani Wallis is entirely sympathetic as a fallen good girl who untwists a bad life heroically.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Dean, F. B. & Hurwitz, J. Simian virus 40 large T antigen untwists DNA at the origin of DNA replication.

From Nature • Feb. 27, 2018

She doesn’t seem mad, but it’ll be a while before my stomach untwists.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

She untwists the strap of my gray tank top undershirt and kisses the top of my head.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

Also, coarse and often petulant loquacity.—Long-jawed applies to a rope or cable, when by great strain it untwists, and exhibits one revolution where four were before; similar to long and short threads of the screw.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir




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