unravelled's Usage Examples:

Baber, who, in 1877-1878, unravelled the geographic mysteries of the western provinces of the Celestial empire.

Curnock having unravelled the difficult cipher and shorthand in which Wesley's early diaries were kept.

Sophocles describes in his Oedipus Tyrannus how Oedipus was resolved to pursue to the end the mystery of the death of Laius, and thus unravelled the dark tale, and in horror put out his own eyes.

Only by the most careful inquiry into their history can their relationship or pedigree be unravelled.

The whole tangled skein of Italian politics, in that involved and stormy period, is unravelled with a patience and an insight that are above praise.

The natural history of Sokotra, unravelled by the study of its geology and biology, has been summarized by Professor Balfour as follows: "During the Carboniferous epoch there was in the region of Sokotra a shallow sea, in which was deposited, on the top of the fundamental gneisses of this spot, .

When carefully dissected and unravelled each is found to consist of a thick tube, about 5 in.

The foreign relations of France during the Revolution have been most ably unravelled by A.

Synonyms:

divide, part, unscramble, untangle, unpick, undo, unknot, disunite, separate,

Antonyms:

unite, associate, attach, knot, ravel,