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/ənˈɹævəɫ/
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[ UK /ʌnɹˈævəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɹˈævəl/ ]
VERB
-
become undone
the sweater unraveled -
become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
unravel the thread -
disentangle
can you unravel the mystery?
How To Use unravel In A Sentence
- C.N), the largest U.S. bank and a major casualty of the crisis, could fall below $10 a share, less than a third of its 150-day moving average price of $32.82, as the credit crisis unravels further.
- Salvation came in the form of a doctor who was able to help Sterry unravel the knots - and in the form of his wife.
- The Bush stooges and their lackeys in the media know that they are hanging by a tenuous thread that is unraveling ever faster and faster.
- It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike.
- Golf superstar Tiger Woods and TV celebrity Jesse James have seen their lives unravel amid revelations of cheating on their spouses, in part by arranging liaisons via text messages.
- unravel the thread
- Either the New Deal has to unravel, which is what we hope for, or else the authoritarians LewRockwell.com Blog
- That misprinted movie name is in hundreds of thousands of copies of The Great Unraveling; it will linger forever in the minds of many people who, like us journalists, don't know that there's an error to look for.
- Some are quite basic, mere saucer-like indentations, but others are exquisitely engineered with intricate pivots and fulcrums unravelling to form a protruding secure holder.
- Logging on gives you apage full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Openly Twitter-Doubting