unfold

Unfold is defined as to open or undo something folded, or make something known that wasn't.

(verb)

See unfold in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to open and spread out (something folded)
to make known or lay open to view, esp. in stages or little by little; reveal, disclose, display, or explain

Origin: ME unfolden < OE unfealdan < un-, un- + fealdan, to fold

intransitive verb

See unfold in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb un·fold·ed, un·fold·ing, un·folds

verb, transitive

verb, intransitive

a. To become spread out; open out: Spring flowers unfolded everywhere.
b. To develop, as if by spreading out: A brilliant career unfolded.
To be revealed gradually to the understanding: A solution to the problem unfolded as they spoke.

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