Word of the Day:
unravel
What It Means
To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
Mother couldn’t unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.
Unravel in Context
“[B]e not like her who unravelleth into strands the thread which she had strongly spun, by taking your oaths with mutual perfidy.”
Did You Know?
PIE word *h₂énti From un- (suffix denoting the inverse of the specified action) + ravel. cognates * Dutch ontrafelen (“to unravel”)
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