unweave

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Verb

unweave (unweaves, present participle unweaving; past unwove, past participle unwoven)

1. (transitive) To undo something woven.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis,

     Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought.

   • 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin's Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter One, p. 20,

     Knowing, as they say, is itself a mystery that weaves itself as one unweaves it.

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