raveled

variants or ravelled
past tense of ravel

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for raveled
Verb
  • That infrastructure unraveled almost overnight when a 90-day hold on foreign aid funds took effect the day of the presidential inauguration.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The story of a Louisville man charged in connection to the murder of his fiancée had not fully unraveled when he was acquitted in 1991.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Each salmon must be untangled from the net one by one.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Raveled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raveled. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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