Unfurl
[ʌn'fɜːl] or ['ʌn'fɝl]
Definition
(verb.) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state; 'unfurl a banner'.
Typist: Moira--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
Typed by Greta
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Open, display, spread out, give to the breeze.
Checked by Jerome
Definition
v.t. to loose from being furled: to unfold display: to spread.—v.i. to be spread out.
Typed by Frank
Examples
- Recovering the sunshade with a powerful hand she unfurled it and suspended its rosy dome above her head. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Typed by Juan