ravel
verb (used with object)
to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
was ravelling
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past progressiveof ravel.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“Marry, the first were that he was like to have no wife, or she should have amended a corner of his rare slashed sleeve, that was ravelling forth o’ the stitching,” saith she.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
It's as if my will had come untwisted and was ravelling out into separate strands.
From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
