Come undone; solve

Usage examples of unravel.

Underneath the radio ops were the aerologists and the slowly unraveling mystery of weather, seen now from above and outside.

Friedman chose to do so in anagram cipher, the solution to which he sealed in a time-stamped envelope, inviting readers to try and unravel it.

On each cane shaft, tied behind the iron arrowhead, was a tuft of unravelled hemp rope that had been soaked in pitch, which spluttered and then burned fiercely when touched with the slow-match, The archers loosed their arrows, which sailed up in a high, flaming parabola and dropped down to peg into the timbers of an anchored vessel.

By investigating what happens when sync unravels, mathematicians are helping cardiologists track down the cause of fibrillation, a deadly arrhythmia that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, suddenly and without warning, even those with no history of heart disease.

Perhaps Baldric had taken to unraveling himself instead of the tapestries.

He watched as Baldric bent down, picked up the end of a thread and very calmly and deliberately began to unravel the tapestry.

Heaven help the rest of England if Baldric ever decided to become a traveling unraveling minstrel.

The bikini bottom was tied on each hip, the strings dangling and begging to be unraveled.

In most humans the input and reactions were woven into a snarl that even biofeedback training could barely begin to unravel.

As he handed his briefcase the phone, the bureaucrat could hear the last of his agent unraveling itself back into oblivion.

Colangelo let out an enervated sigh, perhaps signaling an unraveling of restraint, and rushed at me, slashing with the chisel.

Net result was the discovery of a whole grunch of undeclared income, and then the whole thing unraveled.

To unravel these difficulties and to set the estate clear was a task worthy of the orderly and persevering diplomatist of Pumpernickel, and he set himself to work with prodigious assiduity.

Waves unraveled their white-lace petticoats against ribboned sand, glistening like old, tarnished silver.

The illicit magics Dakar had engaged to unravel the Koriani defenses in Jaelot had assuredly added more stress to the roiled currents of lane flux.