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1. A row of unravelled stitches
   - run, ladder

1. Disentangle
   "can you ravel the mystery?";
   - unravel, ravel out
    
2. Make more complicated or confused
   - tangle, knot

1. French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)
   - Maurice Ravel

Derived forms: raveled, ravelling, ravelled, ravels

Type of: composer, damage, disentangle, enlace, entwine, harm, impairment, interlace, intertwine, lace, straighten out, twine, unsnarl

Antonym: unravel

Encyclopedia: Ravel, Maurice Ravel Ravel, Puy-de-Dôme Ravel, Puy-de-Dome