Definitions for ravels

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ravels rav·el

Spelling: [rav-uh l]

IPA: /ˈræv əl/

Ravels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in ravels (aelrsv).

Definitions for ravels

noun

1. a tangle or complication.
2. something raveled out, as a thread drawn or separated from a knitted or woven fabric.

verb (used with object)

1. to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
2. to tangle or entangle.
3. to involve; confuse; perplex.
4. to make clear; unravel (often followed by out).

verb (used without object)

1. to become disjoined thread by thread or fiber by fiber; fray.
2. to become tangled.
3. to become confused or perplexed.
4. (of a road surface) to lose aggregate.

Origin of ravels

First recorded in 1575-85, ravel is from the Dutch word rafelen

Examples for ravels

Was he ravelling out his life into golden threads that vanished and were forgotten?

Overcasting is a slanting stitch used to keep raw edges from ravelling.

It is not by ravelling that you will best appreciate its tissue or design.

It's as if my will had come untwisted and was ravelling out into separate strands.

There's no crying off for YOU no ravelling out, no clean leaves.

You hadn't any experience in ravelling such things out, and naturally it was too many for you.

I was afraid to use violence for fear of breaking it, or ravelling it through.

She would pick every shred, ravelling, or speck from one's clothing.

Gently to and fro her tresses drifted on the water, or under the water went ever ravelling and unravelling.

Another, with lint bandages in her hand, begged her to come into a church hard by and assist in ravelling linen for the surgeons.