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Definition of Unravel

Unravel

  1. To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.
  2. Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.
  3. To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
  4. To become unraveled, in any sense.

Unravel Quotations

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

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.
J. Michael Straczynski

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

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
David Walliams

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