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Definition of ravel out phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ravel out

phrasal verb

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ravel something out

to open something that has become twisted or which contains knots synonym unravel
- (figurative) He was trying to ravel out the complicated series of events that had led to this situation.
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