- 1. v. t. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. Source: opted
- 4. v. i. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. Source: opted
- 5. v. i. To fall into perplexity and confusion. Source: opted
- 6. v. i. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. Source: opted
- 7. n. a row of unravelled stitches Source: wordnet
- 8. v. disentangle Source: wordnet
- 9. v. tangle or complicate Source: wordnet
- 10. 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak. 2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle. 3. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. What glory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests has he not untied Waller. The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! Jer. Taylor. 1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. [Obs.] Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. Milton. 3. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.] The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple. Source: webster
- 11. v:100 n. French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) v. disentangle v. tangle or complicate Source: ecdict
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