Crossword clues for raveled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ravel \Rav"el\ (r[a^]v"'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raveled (-'ld) or Ravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Raveling or Ravelling.] [OD. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.]
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To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care.
--Shak. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
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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.
What glory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests? has the knot untied?
--Waller.The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses!
--Jer. Taylor.
Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) (en-past of: ravel) vb. (context US English) (en-past of: ravel)
Usage examples of "raveled".
The spirit — or whatever it might be — traded the noose from his left hand to his right, and raveled out an unlikely length of rope from within his tunic.
He threw me aside, and then tossed away the hangman's rope, which raveled down upon me as I collapsed onto the belfry deck.
The spirit-or whatever it might be-traded the noose from his left hand to his right, and raveled out an unlikely length of rope from within his tunic.
The shag carpeting was tattered at places into little raveled strands, and the drapes of greenish raw silk had covered the wall of windows on the north since sometime in the fifties.
Past the bedroom's line of floor-length windows and the narrow stone terrace beyond, darkness had settled, the lights that dotted the orchards below the house making raveled blurs of brightness in the mist.
Harry's own days might be better spent that way, helping save lives and patching the raveled skeins of Galactic society.