unfold

Definition

  • verb: to spread or cause (something) to spread or straighten out from a folded position
  • verb: to open the folds of
  • synonyms: expand, display, disclose

Examples

  • As the story 'unfolds', we learn that the boy became an orphan when he was one year old.

  • We watched the drama 'unfold' on live television.

  • We'll have more news as events 'unfold'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold... ...whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul and freeze thy noble veins But this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) Who's there? Answer me. Stand and unfold yourself Hail to your lordship - Horatio, or I do forget myself - The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever My good friend, I'll change that name with thee. What make thee from Wittenberg, Horatio? (..)
    2015 Hamlet