1.To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking. "Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care."
2.To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
3.To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. "What glory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests? has the knot untied?" "The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses!"
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