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ravelling

verb

Meaning

  1. To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
  2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
  3. To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
  4. To become entangled.
  5. To become untwisted or unwoven.
  6. In the APL programming language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
  7. A tangled mess, a decomposition.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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