RAVEL

vi to fall into perplexity and confusion.

2. ravel ·vt to undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.

3. ravel ·vi to become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

4. ravel ·vi to make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

5. ravel ·vt 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.

6. ravel ·vt to separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit;

— often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.