unravel
verb (used with object)
to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
unraveller
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a word derived from
unravel.
Example Sentences
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There came in the professional detective, Monsieur, who proves himself an unraveller of mysteries, by annihilating the very proofs he had accumulated.
From Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
With nothing very spectacular to his credit, he had earned repute as a follower of long trails, and as an acute unraveller of tangled clews.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
He, the unraveller, was wholly in the interest of the other side.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
Submit to Fate without unseemly wrangle: Such complications frequently occur— Life is one closely complicated tangle: Death is the only true unraveller!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Nor, before that date, was any allusion made to him as a possible unraveller of the Sudan difficulty, in the Press.
From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey
