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verb

Unravel v. t.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse. "Art shall be conjured for it, and nature all unraveled."

Unravel v. i. To become unraveled, in any sense.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unravel" Quotes from Famous Books

... ourselves to plan the search for where the body of the king might be hidden, and that was to unravel a tangled skein indeed. All we knew was that the cart which had borne him from the end of the hidden passage had gone northward along a riverside track. Beyond that, we guessed that it might not have gone far, whether for fear of meeting ...

— A King's Comrade - A Story of Old Hereford • Charles Whistler

... this moment entirely engrossed by the accounts, and his master left him and his big companion to unravel them, while he himself held speech with his guest at some distance—sending for a cup of sack, wherewith to enliven ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... beat of his retreating oars, marvelling more and more at the atrocious nature of our crime which could thus avail to intercept even his last adieus. I, for my part, never saw him again; nor, as I have reason to think, did Lord Westport. Neither did we ever unravel the mystery. ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... fact about Diana's Grove—there is, I have long understood, some strange mystery about that house. It may be of some interest, or it may be trivial, in such a tangled skein as we are trying to unravel." ...

— The Lair of the White Worm • Bram Stoker

... son—also named Duncan—a cross ne'er-do-weel like himself—was natural, but how he came to have such a sweet daughter as Elspie, and such a good elder son as Fergus, are mysteries which we do not attempt to unravel or explain. Perhaps these two took after their departed mother. We know not, for we never met her. Certain it is that they did not in the least resemble their undeparted father—except in looks, for McKay senior had been a handsome man, though at the time we introduce him his good looks, ...

— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne

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