Definition of Unravel

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Unravel

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.

To become unraveled, in any sense.

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Unravel Quotations

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo

Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.
Jacqueline McKenzie

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
Robert Caro

Unravel Translations

unravel in French is effilons, effilez, effilent, effiler
unravel in German is entwirren
unravel in Latin is extrico
unravel in Swedish is repa upp

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