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UNFURL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfurl mean?
• UNFURL (verb)
The verb UNFURL has 1 sense:
1. unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
Familiarity information: UNFURL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: unfurled


Past participle: unfurled


-ing form: unfurling


Sense 1
Meaning:
Unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
unfurl; unroll
Context example:
unfurl a banner
Hypernyms (to "unfurl" is one way to...):
change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
roll up (form a cylinder by rolling)
Context examples
Its strange shawl suddenly unfurled, spread, and fluttered as a pair of leathery wings.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And so, old friend, my heart is hot within me, and I long to hear the old battle-cry again, and, by God's truth! if Sir Nigel unfurls his pennon, here is one who will be right glad to feel the saddle-flaps under his knees.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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