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单词 unraveller
释义

unravellerunravelern.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈravlə/, U.S. /ˌənˈræv(ə)lər/
Forms: 1700s– unraveller, 1800s– unraveler (now chiefly U.S.).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unravel v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < unravel v. + -er suffix1.
A person who or thing which unravels something.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains
expositora1340
expounitourc1380
undoer1382
expoundera1425
reader1440
declarera1527
looser1528
explainer1579
exponer1588
illustrator1598
clearer1599
explicator1611
unfolder1611
representer1642
dilucidator1689
unravellera1704
elucidator1715
exponent1812
explanator1858
transfuser1889
a1704 T. Brown Pocket-bk. Common Places in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 131 Mythologists are indeed..mighty Unravellers of the Fables of the old Ethnicks.
1764 P. Hiffernan Earl of Warwick i. i. 3 Time.., th' unraveller of all The great events which actuate this world.
1814 M. R. Mitford Let. 22 Apr. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 189 An unraveller of state cyphers.
1889 Athenæum 20 Apr. 502/1 The ‘improved’ telephone is..dragged in to serve the purposes of fiction as an unraveller of crime.
1920 R. W. Child Vanishing Men 194 I'm no unraveler of tangled skeins.
1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. iv. 157 Another machine was yet to be uncrated..known in the profession as a portable unraveller.
2011 B. McCrea In Company of Strangers i. i. 49 He is the agent of natural law and legitimate bonds, the opponent and unraveler of illegitimate connections.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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