Unravel vs. Ravel — What's the Difference?

To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of

To separate the fibers or threads of (cloth, for example); unravel.

To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads).

To clarify by separating the aspects of.

To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve

To tangle or complicate.

To cause to fail or become ruined or unfulfilled

To become separated into its component threads; unravel or fray.

To become unraveled

To become tangled or confused.

To fail or become ruined or unfulfilled

A raveling.

(transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle.

A broken or discarded thread.

To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.

A tangle.

To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.

(transitive)

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.

To become undone; to collapse.

Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

(figuratively)

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

(programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.

To become unraveled, in any sense.

(intransitive)

Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of;

Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.

Disentangle;

Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.

Become undone;

To become entangled or snarled.

A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.

(figuratively) A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.

A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.

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.

To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.

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.

To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

To fall into perplexity and confusion.

To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

French composer and exponent of Impressionsim (1875-1937)

A row of unravelled stitches;

Disentangle;

Tangle or complicate;