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was ravelling
  • past progressive of ravel.

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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)

“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

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