Usually means: Release or unwind from a reel.
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  1. unreel: Merriam-Webster
  2. unreel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unreel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unreel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unreel: Vocabulary.com
  6. unreel: Wordnik
  7. unreel: Wiktionary
  8. unreel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. unreel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. unreel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unreel: Dictionary.com
  12. unreel: Rhymezone
  13. unreel: FreeDictionary.org
  14. unreel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. unreel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove or uncoil from a reel.

Similar:
moving, unwinding, reel out, unreave, uncoil, wind off, ravel, unspool, unreeve, unroll, more...

Opposite:
reel in, wind up, wind in, roll up

Types:
spool, unwind, uncoil, unravel, disentangle, more...



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Similar:
moving, unwinding, reel out, unreave, uncoil, wind off, ravel, unspool, unreeve, unroll, more...

Opposite:
reel in, wind up, wind in, roll up

Types:
spool, unwind, uncoil, unravel, disentangle, more...



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