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单词 unswathe
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unswathev.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈsweɪð/, U.S. /ˌənˈsweɪð/
Etymology: un- prefix2 1b.
transitive. To free from swathings; to unswaddle.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > unwrap
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unfold1553
unswaddle1579
unwind1596
a1400 Octovian 302 Her chylderen sche douȝte þer to baþe; Sche sat adoun hem to vnswade.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sfasciare, to vnswathe, to vnbind.
1604 M. Drayton Moyses iii. 13 This most sweete Princesse..Soone on her knee vnswathes it as her owne.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 90. ¶7 About Nine a Clock..an old Woman came to unswathe me.
1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella I. 115 Sir George..insisted upon the nurse's immediately unpinning and unswathing him.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Fragm. Unfinished Drama 207 Spring indeed Came to unswathe her infants.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon at Bulb An Egyptian mummy that was lately unswathed in this country.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 419 At the end of every three hours the child is unswathed.
figurative.1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares I j b I will vnswathe thy breast with my sharpe knyfe.1833 Tennyson in Ld. Tennyson Mem. (1897) I. 115 The clouds unswathe them from the height.a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 319 Spinoza himself describes his own philosophy as in substance the same with that of..the Cabalists—only unswathed from the Biblical dress.1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible i. 42 How came any of them to unswathe themselves from all these lifelong notions.
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