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Noun: ravelling
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: raveling)
  1. A bit of fibre that has become separated from woven fabric
    "She carefully removed the ravelling from her sweater";
    - raveling [US]
Verb: ravel (ravelled,ravelling, or [US] raveled,raveling)  ra-vul
  1. Make more complicated or confused
    "The plot ravelled as more characters were introduced";
    - tangle, knot
     
  2. Disentangle
    "She carefully ravelled the tangled yarn";
    - unravel

Derived forms: ravellings

Type of: disentangle, enlace, entwine, fiber [US], fibre [Brit, Cdn], interlace, intertwine, interwind, intwine [archaic], lace, straighten out, twine, unsnarl

Antonym: unravel

Part of: lint

Encyclopedia: Ravel, Puy-de-Dome