word | unravel |
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sentence | Once only had I known him to fail, in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel. |
definition | [verb] 1. (transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle. 2. (intransitive) (of threads, etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart. 3. (transitive, figuratively) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve. |
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