Ravel can mean to fray or become disjoined, or to entangle. It comes from a Middle Dutch word meaning "to fray out."
Ravel kann bedeuten, dass sich etwas auflöst oder entwirrt, oder sich verwickelt. Es stammt von einem mittelniederländischen Wort, das "fray out" bedeutet.
| Front | ravel \RAV-uhl\ |
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| Back | verb tr. intr. 1. To fray or to become disjoined; to untangle. 2. To entangle. [From Middle Dutch ravelen (to fray out), from ravel (loose thread). Earliest documented use: before 1540.] "Ministries like the Gathering Place always run on a shoestring. In today's economic climate, the shoestring is raveling." - Helen Colwell Adams; Band Aids Booked To Benefit Patients; Sunday News (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Apr 12, 2009. "W.B. Yeats's vision involved the notion that at any moment forces were raveling and unraveling, forming and disintegrating." - Roger Cohen; The Arab Gyre; International Herald Tribune (Paris, France); Apr 26, 2011. |
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