1. to remove thread from a needle or from something that has been threaded
2. to find one’s way out of something complex or confusing
Usage: figurative

Examples

• She carefully unthreaded the needle before putting away her sewing kit.
• The jeweler had to unthread the beads to repair the broken necklace.
• He tried to unthread himself from the complicated legal situation.
• The detective worked to unthread the mystery surrounding the missing documents.
• After the project failed, they needed to unthread all the tangled partnerships.
• She unthreaded the fishing line that had gotten caught in the branches.