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Unreel for Dummies

verb

pronunciation: ən'ril

What does Unreel really mean?

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Unreel means to unwind or unroll something. Imagine you have a roll of string or ribbon. When you unroll it, you are unreeling it. It's like when you have a movie tape and you press the play button. The tape starts to unroll and play the movie. That's how you can think of unreeling - it's unrolling something, like a tape or a ribbon or even your garden hose when you want to water your plants. It's like setting something free from being all wound up and letting it go. When you see the word "unreel," think of untangling and unwinding something, like letting it be free and unfurl itself. It can also mean letting go of your imagination or creativity, like the way a movie unravels and reveals a story.

Revised and Fact checked by David Anderson on 2023-10-29 22:33:09

Unreel In a sentece

Learn how to use Unreel inside a sentece

  • When we watch a movie at the theater, the film starts to unreel from the projector onto the screen.
  • John's fishing line got tangled, and it took him a while to unreel it and cast his hook into the water.
  • The magician pulled a long colorful ribbon from his hat and continued to unreel it, surprising the audience.
  • As she painted, Sarah accidentally dropped her paintbrush, causing the paint to unreel across the canvas.
  • The old cassette tape got stuck in the player, and it took a lot of effort to unreel the tape and fix it.

Unreel Synonyms

Words that can be interchanged for the original word in the same context.

Unreel Hypernyms

Words that are more generic than the original word.