Usually means: Reveal or open something gradually.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word unfold:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. unfold: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unfold: Merriam-Webster
  3. unfold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unfold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unfold: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unfold: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unfold, unfold: Wordnik
  8. unfold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unfold: Wiktionary
  10. unfold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unfold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unfold: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unfold: Dictionary.com
  14. unfold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unfold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unfold (The Necks album), Unfold (higher-order function), Unfold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Unfold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. unfold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. unfold: Rhymezone
  20. unfold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. unfold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. unfold: FreeDictionary.org
  23. unfold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. unfold: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfold: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unfold: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. unfold: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNFOLD: Acronym Finder
  2. unfold: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfold: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See unfolded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To undo a folding.
verb:  (intransitive) To become unfolded.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
verb:  (transitive) To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal.
verb:  (transitive) To release from a fold or pen.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To reassemble a line of text that was split across multiple lines.
noun:  (computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.

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