unravel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.

   “Mother couldn’t unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.”

2. fiil To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).

   “Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You’ll unravel it.”

3. fiil To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.

   “to unravel the broad consensus which was created”

4. fiil To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.

   “to unravel the confusion    to unravel a plot”

5. fiil To reverse or undo (something); to annul, to negate.

   “For everie time thou admitſt mee after, to thy / Pillovv, I'le ſtrike of an hundred pound, / Till all the debts be unravel'd: […]”

6. fiil To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
7. fiil Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.

   “[C]onſider him as a King, and what favours hath he beſtowed on his Subjects! and then, that his curteſies might not unravell or fret out, hath bound them with a ſtrong border and a rich fringe, a Triennial Parliament.”

8. fiil Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.

   “In an Eternity, vvhat Scenes ſhall ſtrike? / Adventures thicken? Novelties ſurprize? / VVhat VVebs of VVonder ſhall unravel, there?”