| 单词 | unravel |
| 释义 | unravel (once / 1706 pages) v However tempting, don't pull that straggly thread hanging from your sleeve. You'll just unravel, or totally undo, your hand-knitted sweater. Something that's unraveled has been completely undone, whether it's a spool of thread, some knotty shoelaces, or your mental state after a long and frustrating day. You can also unravel a mystery by picking it apart, untangling the details or just following the trail of clues like a line of string. WORD FAMILYunravel: unraveled, unraveler, unraveling, unravelled, unraveller, unravelling, unravels+/ravel: raveled, raveling, ravelled, ravelling, ravels, unravel/raveling: ravelings/ravelling: ravellings/unraveler: unravelers/unraveller: unravellers USAGE EXAMPLESAs the parched beige hilltops fill with red-tiled homes, decades of international efforts to achieve a two-state solution are unraveling. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) They are starting to unravel the reasons bariatric surgery allows most people to lose significant amounts of weight when dieting so often fails. New York Times(May 02, 2016) It will be fun watching it all unravel — particularly the single 10-mile-long hair strand. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1v become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of unravel the thread Syn|Ant|Hyper unknot, unpick, unscramble, untangle knot, ravel, tangle tangle or complicate undo cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect 2v become undone the sweater unraveled Syn|Hyper run ladder, run come unraveled or undone as if by snagging disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity 3v disentangle can you unravel the mystery? Syn|Ant|Hyper ravel, ravel out knot, ravel, tangle tangle or complicate disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl extricate from entanglement |
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