Unravel

Word UNRAVEL
Character 7
Hyphenation un rav el
Pronunciations /ʌnˈɹævəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Unravel"

What do we mean by unravel?

To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of. intransitive verb

To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads). intransitive verb

To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve. intransitive verb

To cause to fail or become ruined or unfulfilled. intransitive verb

To become unraveled. intransitive verb

To fail or become ruined or unfulfilled. intransitive verb

To disentangle or separate, as threads; especially, to take out the threads of (textile material). See ravel.

To clear from complication or difficulty; unriddle; unfold.

To separate the connected or united parts of; throw into disorder.

To unfold or bring to a denouement, as the plot or intrigue of a play.

To be unfolded; be disentangled.

To become unraveled, in any sense. intransitive verb

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of. transitive verb

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve. transitive verb

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse. transitive verb

To separate the threads (of) verb

To become undone verb

Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of verb

Become undone verb

To separate the threads (of); disentangle.

(of threads, etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.

To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

To become undone; to collapse.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Unravel

The word "unravel" in example sentences

Quite why she told a lie which was always going to unravel is a bit of a puzzle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Watching the Brubaker family’s lives unravel is the best way to see the stuff from which they’re really made. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Either the New Deal has to unravel, which is what we hope for, or else the authoritarians ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ensuing scandal threatened, in the words of Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein, to "unravel" the remaining 60 "War" cases. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By "unravel" they mean he becomes violent and shoots people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

KING: What's it like to have your whole life kind of unravel before people? ❋ Unknown (2007)

And what we need to do is kind of unravel that and get as much information as possible. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But because our writing conventions "unravel" the language and transcribe both the full and short forms as THEM, the actor is often distracted into supposing that always saying "THEHM" is good form, "rendering the text properly" Actors erupt in these phony "THEHM"s all the time -- I have even heard actors pull this when spouting the vibrantly choppy, earthy vernacular of David Mamet plays. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Budget is concluded, "unravel" the paradox, which is the mathematico-geometrical nut he has given me to crack. ❋ Augustus De Morgan (1838)

Democrat warned that the coalition agreement could "unravel" over the issue. economy is worse than expected as cover for swingeing cuts that the Conservatives had always planned to make after the ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the Cabinet minister accused his opponents of "confusing publicity with credibility", and insisted their flurry of policy announcements were starting to "unravel". ❋ Unknown (2010)

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