Dictionary Entry
ravel
ravel is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
- 2transitive verb
To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
- 3transitive verb
To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
- 4intransitive verb
To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
- 5intransitive verb
To fall into perplexity and confusion.
- 6intransitive verb
To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
- 7noun
a row of unravelled stitches
"she got a run in her stocking"
- 8noun
French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)
- 9verb
tangle or complicate
"a ravelled story"
- 10verb
disentangle
"can you unravel the mystery?"
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