unravel
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
Mother couldn’t unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.
Đồng nghĩa: unsnarl, disentangle, feeze, tease out, unravel, unsnarl, untangle
- 2.
(transitive)To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You’ll unravel it.
Đồng nghĩa: ravel
- 3.
(figuratively, transitive)To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
to unravel the broad consensus which was created
to unravel the compromise achieved in the treaty
- 4.
(also, figuratively, reflexive, transitive)To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.
to unravel the confusion to unravel a plot
Đồng nghĩa: ravel, unpuzzle, unriddle, straighten out, 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
- 5.
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To reverse or undo (something); to annul, to negate.
- 6.
(intransitive)To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
Đồng nghĩa: ravel
- 7.
(intransitive)Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.
Đồng nghĩa: come undone, ravel
- 8.
(figuratively, intransitive)Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.
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h₂énti From un- + ravel.