Ravel meaning
Ravel is to tangle, or to complicate something like a question or situation.
When you tangle a handful of cable cords, this is an example of when you ravel.
When someone asks you a question and you give a wandering and confusing answer that only complicates matters, this is an example of when you ravel.
verb
The definition of a ravel is a cluster, tangle or knot.
A balled up, tangled knot of Christmas decorations is an example of a ravel.
noun
To separate the fibers or threads of (cloth, for example); unravel.
verb
To clarify by separating the aspects of.
verb
To tangle or complicate.
verb
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To become separated into its component threads; unravel or fray.
verb
To become tangled or confused.
verb
A raveling.
noun
A broken or discarded thread.
noun
A tangle.
noun
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To make complicated or tangled.
Parts of his argument were all raveled up.
verb
To separate the parts, esp. threads, of; untwist; unweave; unravel.
verb
To make clear; disentangle.
verb
To become separated into its parts, esp. threads; become unwoven; fray (out)
verb
To become complicated or tangled.
verb
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A raveled part in a fabric; raveling.
noun
A tangled mass or complication.
noun
1875-1937; Fr. composer.
proper name
- 1871, Popular Science News, Volumes 5-7, edition Digitized, published 2011, page 61.... and in them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes ...
- 2011 September 10, Martha T. Moore, “After 9/11, dinner gang raises funds to honor those lost", USA Today, accessed on 2012-08-24.But the real work of the First Thursday Foundation is remembering, and its biggest gift is knitting back together lives raveled by loss.
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