untwist
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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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