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Definition of Ravel out
1. Verb. Disentangle. "Can you unravel the mystery?"
Generic synonyms: Disentangle, Straighten Out, Unsnarl
Derivative terms: Ravel, Raveling, Ravelling, Unraveler, Unraveller
Antonyms: Ravel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravel Out
Literary usage of Ravel out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"To fuzz or ravel out, to break up into filaments. ... to drizzle, to ravel out
in threads, to fiddle, to work minutely ; fisel, a thin, poor creature, ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"To fuzz or ravel out, to break up into filaments. ... to drizzle, to ravel out
in threads, to fiddle, to work minutely ; fisel, a thin, poor creature, ..."
3. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"vr be drawn out, taper; ravel, ravel out. effilocher, vt ravel out, pick to
pieces, disintegrate. effleurage, effleurement, m. removal of the surface, etc. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"Schm. Pl. D. faseln, to rain fine and thin, to ravel out threads; fiss, fissel,
a thread, fibre.—• Danneil. Swiss fisel, a thin, poor creature, ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"To ravel out is not exactly to disentangle (as in Schmidt), but to unweave. '
Must I ravel out My weaved-up folly ; ' Rich. II, iv. 228 ; cf. Haml. iii. 4. ..."
6. A Pilgrim's Reliquary by Thomas Henry White (1845)
"Must it be sol And must I ravel out My weaved-up Follies ? Gentle Northumberland,
If thy Offences were upon Record, Would it not shame thee, ..."
7. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"To unravel is to disentangle ; to ravel out is to unweave. ... to ravel out.
Of unknown origin ; but cf. ..."
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