Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lower-priced: distinctively noting wheaten bread made from flour and bran together.
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- verb US Simple past tense and past participle of
ravel .
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Examples
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But maybe the error is so common it's become like "raveled" and "unraveled".
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Yet looking for these tiny creatures also helps you to appreciate the fine tissue of the world and the way it all interlinks like a delicately raveled web.
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She fidgeted with a raveled thread on her sleeve, her wary gaze never leaving his face.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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It has only been a week and they are coming un-raveled already.
State of the Union: Candy Crowley's Crib Sheet for April 4 2010
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She fidgeted with a raveled thread on her sleeve, her wary gaze never leaving his face.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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But the real work of the First Thursday Foundation is remembering, and its biggest gift is knitting back together lives raveled by loss.
After 9/11, dinner gang raises funds to honor those lost 2011
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On top of Aliens running wild throughout the town, another Predator has raveled from “Predator-ville” to take revenge of the death of his comrade.
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She fidgeted with a raveled thread on her sleeve, her wary gaze never leaving his face.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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To our loss, we no longer refer to a drink as "art's sunburst of imagined delight becoming real" or "the reconciliation that knits up the raveled day."
Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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But sequence raveled out of sound like balls upon the floor.
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