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say it: uhn-FOHLD
unfold is a verb meaning "develop or come to a promising stage". It carries 4 recorded senses.
develop or come to a promising stage
“Youth blossomed into maturity”
extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
“Unfold the newspaper”
“stretch out that piece of cloth”
“extend the TV antenna”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unfold come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.