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View definitions for unravel

unravel

verb as in solve

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verb as in untangle

verb as in unfold

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Gene editing may be able to help researchers unravel the mysteries of the cephalopod brain.

The details of how and under what conditions this happens have yet to be unraveled.

Hosts Andrew Keatts and Sara Libby in this week’s podcast, unraveled the increasingly sticky complex of district-by-district decisions on what to do about putting kids in classrooms.

“With this outcome, Borexino has completely unraveled the two processes powering the sun,” said physicist Gioacchino Ranucci of Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Milan.

Let’s try to unravel this issue, starting with a brief history of rent control.

Although Schwend was initially released, his life began to unravel.

Soon, Egan begins to unravel—haunted by the high body counts, the civilian casualties, and the bizarre, detached nature of it all.

To help unravel the secrets of "Time Zones," The Daily Beast caught up with Hamm earlier this week in Los Angeles.

Those first confusing moments unravel in my mind like an old film.

Yet the distinction between good, bad, and likeable remains one of the most difficult mysteries to unravel.

De Robeck and Keyes came over from the Triad to unravel knotty points.

"Better leave your mother here," he said, when she told him of her determination to unravel the mystery.

The blank maze of tree trunks began to unravel into moss-strewn avenues.

To die as soon as possible, to escape shame by a complete disappearance, to unravel in this way an inextricable situation.

There's a mystery, but James Price, alias Pickles, 'ull unravel it.

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On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unravel, such as: clear up, resolve, disclose, explain, sort out, and unriddle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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