ravel
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
Đồng nghĩa: mat, snarl, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, foul, implicate, imply, involve, mat, ravel, snarl, tangle
- 2.
(also, figuratively, transitive)Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
Đồng nghĩa: knit, weave
- 3.
(transitive)To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- 4.
(figuratively, transitive)To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
Đồng nghĩa: confound, involve, puzzle, addle, baffle, lose, embroil, stick, stump, baffound, bamboozle, bedevil, befuddle, throw, bemud, bemuse, bewilder, bumfuzzle, complicate, confound, confuddle, confuse, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, blind, dumbfound, entangle, ferhoodle, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flurry, fluster, flummox, fuddle, jumble, knot, mix up, muddle, muddy, ravel, perplex, puzzle
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(archaic, figuratively, transitive)Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.
Đồng nghĩa: iron out, unravel, untangle, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate, puzzle out, ravel, reason out, resolve, riddle, sleuth, solve, tease out, think out, unpuzzle, unravel, unriddle, unsolve, upsolve, work out, Any from Thesaurus:untangle
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(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
Đồng nghĩa: disintegrate, race, unmake, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off, wreck
- 7.
(transitive)In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
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(intransitive)Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
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(also, figuratively, intransitive)Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
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(archaic, intransitive, obsolete)To become entangled or snarled.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(Scotland, literary)A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
Đồng nghĩa: ravelment
- 2.
(Scotland, figuratively, literary)A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
- 3.
(also, figuratively)(also figuratively) A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
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The verb is borrowed from Dutch ravelen, rafelen (to tangle, become entangled; to fray; to unweave)raffelen; further etymology uncertain. It has been suggested that the verb is originally derived from the noun, but the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as “very uncertain”, and instead regards the noun as having derived from the verb (compare rafel, raffel (frayed thread)).