ravel
verb (used with object)
to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
had ravelled
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past perfectof ravel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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There was the work-box where I had ravelled her silks unchidden.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
My lips were saut wi' the saut air, My face was brown, my feet were bare The wind had ravelled my tautit hair, And I thought shame to be standing there.
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Squire Longbow wore the same clouded-blue stockings that he did when first elected magistrate; but Mrs. Longbow had ravelled them up several times, and "footed them over."
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
