Usually means: Relaxing and releasing stress gradually.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word unwinding:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. unwinding: Merriam-Webster
  2. unwinding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. unwinding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Unwinding, unwinding: Wordnik
  5. unwinding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. unwinding: Wiktionary
  7. unwinding: Dictionary.com
  8. unwinding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Unwinding, Unwinding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. unwinding: Rhymezone
  11. unwinding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unwinding: Legal dictionary
  2. unwinding: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unwinding: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unwinding)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is unwound.
▸ adjective:  Not winding or meandering; straight, direct.

Similar:
moving, unreeling, uncoiling, untwisting, unravelling, unrolling, unravelment, unrollment, winddown, untying, more...

Opposite:
winding, spooling, coiling

Types:
decompression, relaxation, more...

Phrases:
Our Unwinding Ethos, more...

Adjectives:
local, slow, partial, gradual, alkaline, dependent, complete, further, rapid, long, extensive



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Similar:
moving, unreeling, uncoiling, untwisting, unravelling, unrolling, unravelment, unrollment, winddown, untying, more...

Opposite:
winding, spooling, coiling

Types:
decompression, relaxation, more...

Phrases:
Our Unwinding Ethos, more...

Adjectives:
local, slow, partial, gradual, alkaline, dependent, complete, further, rapid, long, extensive



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