🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

退绕

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tuì rào

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unreel/ˌʌnˈriːl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他开始退绕钓鱼线。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To wind off something that is wound on a reel; to unwind or straighten out.

    "He carefully began to unreel the fishing line from the spool."
  2. 2

    To cause to be revealed or to unfold gradually.

    "The documentary began to unreel the fascinating history of early cinema."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Formed in English by combining the negative or reversal prefix un- (from Old English un-) with the noun/verb reel (from Old English reol, hreol). It emerged in the late 16th century to describe the mechanical action of undoing or winding off something that has been wound onto a reel.

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