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单词 unravelling
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unravellingunravelingn.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈravl̩ɪŋ/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈrav(ə)lɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈræv(ə)lɪŋ/
Forms: 1600s vnraueling, 1600s– unravelling, 1700s– unraveling (now chiefly U.S.).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unravel v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < unravel v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of unravel v.; an instance of this. Also: something unravelled (from a woven fabric, a web, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > incohesion > disaggregation or disintegration
unravelling1606
disgregation1611
disintegration1794
break-up1795
disaggregation1819
breaking-down1883
break-away1885
breakdown1928
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [noun] > untwisting or unravelling
untwisting1591
unravelling1606
unplaiting1611
unweaving1706
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > dénouement
untying1598
unravelling1606
discovery1668
unravelment1705
dénouement1752
resolution1846
pay-off1947
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]
keyeOE
undoinga1330
expositiona1340
declarationc1374
declaringc1374
clearingc1380
expoundingc1380
explanationa1382
interpretation1382
exploitingc1390
unfolding1483
explicating1531
explication1537
clearance?1548
elucidation1570
explaining1576
manifestation1576
untwining1577
illustration1581
untwisting1591
eviscerating1599
unclouding1601
enodation1603
opening1611
dilucidation1615
unsnarling1640
declarement1646
enucleation1650
illumination1656
dilucidatinga1660
luciferousness1665
clarifying1677
unravelling1713
disentanglement1751
exegesis1770
disambiguation1827
evisceration1831
keyword1848
clarificationa1866
exponence1880
exponency1880
straightening1900
demystification1964
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. D1v When..the bottome of my Patrimony came within 200. pound of vnraueling.
1641 R. Greville Nature of Truth 76 To him was committed the unravelling of all the difficult knots.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 16 The Catastrophe, which..the French [call] le denouement, and we the discovery or unravelling of the Plot.
1713 T. Birch in Guardian 22 Apr. 1/2 Are not..all their pompous Distinctions only so many Unravelings of Double Meanings?
1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxxi. As if it had been spun from the unravellings of a spider's web.
1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 455 A mystery, the unravelling of which..engaged all my attention.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. v. 102 The mental exercise..involved in the unravelling of a language.
1925 Redbook May 164/2 From his unraveling of what they said, he gathered that his wife, in her anguish, had felt the need to confide in some one.
1976 Ebony Oct. 29 The racial unrest and disaffection of Afro-Americanism..is essentially the unraveling of the art and expression of black writers of the 1960s.
2008 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. (Business section) b2/3 They could not foresee the unravelling of losses from these institutions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

unravellingunravelingadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈravl̩ɪŋ/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈrav(ə)lɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈræv(ə)lɪŋ/
Forms: 1700s– unraveling (now chiefly U.S.), 1700s– unravelling.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unravel v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < unravel v. + -ing suffix2.
That unravels (in various senses). Also: that unravels or disentangles something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > uncoiling or unwinding > [adjective]
unravelling1711
uncurling1728
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. iii. i. 134 He has hitherto, methinks, kept up his sapping Method and unravelling Humour.
1765 J. Reynolds in S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare VIII. App. sig. Ll4/2 When the sentiment is brought to this state, the commentator, without this unraveling clue, expounds piercing the heart, in its common acceptation, wounding the heart.
1827 J. Montgomery Pelican Island iii. 77 The unravelling clew not for a moment lost Hold of the silent hand that drew it out.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xv. 49 Pug..brings the lately rushing, clamorous pack to a more plodding, pains-taking, unravelling sort of performance.
1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday i. iv. 36 An expressive adjective, or a second-sighted noun, an unravelling or illuminating verb.
1985 A. Lurie Foreign Affairs viii. 186 A short plump man..with an unravelling brown sweater.
2012 D. Park Light of Amsterdam xiii. 279 The place would be a wash of tears with too many unravelling memories spooling out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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