Found 3 items, similar to Raveled.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ravel
komplikasi, mengacaukan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Ravel
Ravel
n 1: French composer and exponent of Impressionsim (1875-1937)
[syn:
Maurice Ravel]
2: a row of unravelled stitches;
“she got a run in her
stocking” [syn:
run,
ladder]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Raveled
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.]
1. 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.
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Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care.
--Shak.
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2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
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3. 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.
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What glory's due to him that could divide
Such raveled interests? has the knot untied?
--Waller.
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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.
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