Word Finder - unravelling

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To separate the threads (of); disentangle.

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Mother couldn't unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.

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(of threads, etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.

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To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.

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to unravel a mystery

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To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

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to unravel the broad consensus which was created

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To become undone; to collapse.

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The act of becoming unravelled

He employed the theory with wonderful success in unravelling the problems of his time.

Settlements belonging to the Stone age, and manufactories of stone implements, burial-grounds of the Bronze epoch, earthen forts and burial-mounds (kurgans) - of this last four different types are known, the earliest belonging to the Bronze period - are superposed, rendering the task of unravelling their several relations one of great difficulty.

And what Spinoza has to say of the requisites of definition and the marks of intellection makes it clear that insight comes with coherence, and that the work of method on the " inductive " side is by means of the unravelling of all that makes for artificial limitation to lay bare what can then be seen to exhibit nexus in the one great system.