unravel

IPA: ʌnrˈævʌɫ

verb

  • (transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle.
  • (intransitive, of threads etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.
  • (transitive, figurative) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.
  • (transitive, figurative) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
  • (intransitive, figurative) To become undone; to collapse.
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Examples of "unravel" in Sentences

  • Eventually, they had to unravel the mess.
  • In the fifth book, the time spell unravels.
  • Does ravel and unravel mean the same thing
  • The third act is the unraveling of the plot.
  • Does ravel and unravel mean the sqame thing
  • Eventually, the arbcom had to unravel the mess.
  • In the fifth book, the time spell starts to unravel.
  • The attempt was thwarted and the conspiracy unraveled.
  • I'm in no position to unravel the myths from the realities.
  • Sha moves to unravel a few knots, in spite of his somewhat turbid terminology.
  • Quite why she told a lie which was always going to unravel is a bit of a puzzle.
  • Either the New Deal has to unravel, which is what we hope for, or else the authoritarians
  • Watching the Brubaker family’s lives unravel is the best way to see the stuff from which they’re really made.
  • The ensuing scandal threatened, in the words of Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein, to "unravel" the remaining 60 "War" cases.
  • Nuevelle said she began to "unravel" during an argument in which she said that Albert threatened to use her authority to make sure Nuevelle never saw her own son again.
  • What the AP should have focused on were the results that showed that their reporting yesterday about the Bush Administration beginning to "unravel" in the eyes of the American public was as accurate as it could be.
  • Nursing a strange psychiatric history and one it's difficult to unravel from the heroin addiction, a chicken-egg situation, but whatever the conclusions Anna Kavan's psyche seems to have been all a bit of a debilitating muddle.

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