RAVELED (OUT) Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

raveled (out)

verb

variants or ravelled (out)

past tense of ravel (out)

as in unraveled

to separate the various strands of since the sweater is too small, you could ravel the yarn out and make something else with it

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unraveled

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Over the past 25 or so years, this country has unraveled in a lot of ways.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
The firm unraveled in 2025 after prosecutors accused its founder and chief financial officer of concealing hundreds of millions of dollars in financial problems from lenders and investors, a case bolstered by the CFO’s guilty plea.

— Alex Volonte, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

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