unravel

«unravel» in Mova's school dictionary: To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (unravels, unravelled, unravelling)

meaning for a pupil

1) To undo knitting or cloth by pulling the threads apart. tree →

2) To work out the answer to something tangled or hard to understand. tree →

sense 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 →
• The spider's web unravelled in the wind. tree →
• Can you unravel this puzzle? tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unravel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.