RAVEL
\ɹˈavə͡l], \ɹˈavəl], \ɹ_ˈa_v_əl]\
Definitions of RAVEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
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a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking"
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French composer and exponent of Impressionsim (1875-1937)
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disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?"; "unravel the ball or yarn"
By Princeton University
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tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
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a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking"
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French composer and exponent of Impressionsim (1875-1937)
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disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?"; "unravel the ball or yarn"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
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To fall into perplexity and confusion.
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To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
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To fall into perplexity and confusion.
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To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To draw out the threads of, as of a woven fabric; disentangle or make less difficult to understand.
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To become unwoven or disentangled.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To untwist or unweave: to confuse, entangle.
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To be untwisted or unwoven:-pr.p. ravelling; pa.t. and pa.p. ravelled.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman