Ravel

['ræv(ə)l] or ['rævl]

Definition

(noun.) French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937).

(verb.) tangle or complicate; 'a ravelled story'.

(verb.) disentangle; 'can you unravel the mystery?'.

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Definition

(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.

(v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.

(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.

(v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

(v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.

(v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Disentangle, untwist, unravel.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Separate, undo, untwist, unwind, disentangle

ANT:Entangle, complicate, conglomerate, contuse

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Definition

v.t. to confuse entangle: to untwist or unweave: to unravel (in this sense usually with out).—v.i. to be untwisted or unwoven: to become entangled: to search (with into):—pr.p. rav′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. rav′elled.—n. a ravelled thread.—adj. Rav′elled denoting bread made from flour and bran.—ns. Rav′elling a ravelled thread; Rav′elling-en′gine a machine for tearing rags.—adv. Rav′elly.—n. Rav′elment discord.

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