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Meanings of ravel in English

Catalan
carrera
Spanish
corrida

A row of unravelled stitches.

        carrera
        Catalan
        enredar
        Spanish
        urdir

        Tangle or complicate.

            enredar
            Portuguese
            maurice ravel
            Catalan
            maurice ravel
            Spanish
            maurice ravel

            French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)

                  maurice ravel
                  Spanish
                  desenredar

                  Disentangle.

                        desenredar
                        Usage of ravel in English
                        1
                        Given her feelings about you ravel, I think she showed remarkable restraint.
                        The Wise Man’s Fear
                        2
                        No more worrying that his love had started to ravel and fade.
                        Flesh and blood
                        3
                        Fasten the ends with pins and ravel out for a tassel.
                        The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
                        4
                        Press it with a hot iron, and then ravel it out.
                        A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at H...
                        5
                        A spot of brightness trailed a thin, pronged ravel of light.
                        Knight of the Demon Queen
                        6
                        It's only a single thread, and it will ravel, and-well-youdon'twant that.
                        Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
                        7
                        Why is it that pleasure excursions seem to ravel out?
                        In the Footprints of the Padres
                        8
                        The nervous equipment of an American would ravel out, if it were not for sound sleep.
                        Golden Lads
                        9
                        A man has no right to ravel out his life, even though the threads are of gold.
                        The Great Hunger
                        10
                        There once was a ravel named Kvothe
                        The Name of the Wind
                        11
                        Besides, it'll be nice to get the jump on them for a change, lawless damn ravel bastards.
                        The Wise Man’s Fear
                        12
                        The several straps, after describing a certain number of turns, ravel out at the ends and hang loose.
                        The Life of the Spider
                        13
                        Her hair was streaming down across her face and shoulders in strands too wet for the wind to ravel.
                        As It Was in the Beginning
                        14
                        Of one blood we are, and love can ravel up our little difference and make us grow one indeed.
                        Cleopatra
                        15
                        A woman with a thimble-full of woman-wit could ravel them both up-ravelthem up like a cut of worsteds.
                        A Knight of the Nets
                        16
                        Cut the buttonhole and work; you will find that the work is easily done and the buttonhole will not ravel.
                        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
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                        Translations for ravel
                        Ravel through the time