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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

얽히게 하다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eolhige hada

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ravel/ˈræv.əl/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"실이 완전히 얽혀 버렸다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To tangle or make something intricately complex and knotted.

    "The kitten played with the yarn until it was completely ravelled."
  2. 2

    To untangle, unpick, or untwist threads or a knitted fabric.

    "She carefully ravelled the old sweater to reuse the wool for a new project."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle Dutch 'ravelen', meaning to fray or untwist, and related to Middle Low German 'ravelen'. Interestingly, the word is a contronym, meaning it can refer both to the tangling or complicating of something and to the unravelling or clarifying of it.

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