Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled.

    Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent.

  2. (intransitive)To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold.

    We will have to see how the events unroll.

  3. (transitive)To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization.

More definitions
  • unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state
  • reverse the winding or twisting of

Examples

19 sentences
  1. I unrolled my sleeping bag and crawled in.

    ruЯ развернул спальный мешок и залез внутрь. — marafon

  2. Tom unrolled the rope ladder and hung it out the window.

  3. Tom unrolled his sleeping bag.

    ruТом развернул спальный мешок. — marafon

  4. Tom unrolled his yoga mat.

    deTom rollte seine Yogamatte aus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom and Mary unrolled their yoga mats.

    deTom und Maria rollten ihre Yogamatten aus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Forms

unrolls, unrolling, unrolled, unrolled
Base formunroll · to unroll
3rd person singularunrolls
Present participleunrolling
Past simpleunrolled
Past participleunrolled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyunroll
he, she, itunrolls

Past simpleLesson

all personsunrolled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave unrolled
he, she, ithas unrolled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill unroll

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state:unfurl
  • reverse the winding or twisting of:unwindwind off

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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