How to pronounce“ravel”in English
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Definitions of “ravel”
To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
“For the faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or ravelled and entangled in weak discourses, or so false and fallacious by its mixture of interest, that though men usually put most confidences in the pretences of faith, yet no pretences are most unreasonable.”
Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
“[Magazine staffer about his political team:] Pencils at the ready, keen brains agleam behind intelligent horn rims, these experts spread out to ravel the loose ends of White-Housing, web-spinning spiders for [the presidential candidate].”
A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
“Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.'”
A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
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