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# unravel

verb (unravels, unravelled, unravelling)

«unravel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unravel/#m1)
2. To work out the answer to something tangled or hard to understand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unravel/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories, a spinner or weaver undoes thread or cloth; in lessons, to unravel a problem is to find out how its parts fit together.

### Examples

- She unravelled the old scarf to make a new one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unravel/#x1)
- The spider's web unravelled in the wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unravel/#x2)
- Can you unravel this puzzle? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unravel/#x3)

### Note

Nothing for maths; unravelling a problem means working out the parts, and it does not change any count.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unravel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unravel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unravel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unravel.html) on Mova free.