Unravelling meaning: present participle of unravel. These examples are from the Cambridge English Corpus and from sources on the web. A General Strategy to Atomically Dispersed Precious Metal Catalysts for Unravelling Their Catalytic Trends for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Jae Hyung Kim. Jae Hyung Kim. Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of.
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un·rav·el
(ŭn-răv′əl)
v.un·rav·eled, un·rav·el·ing, un·rav·els or un·rav·elled or un·rav·el·ling
v.tr.1.
a. To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of: unraveled the sweater.
b. To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads).
2. To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve: The detective unraveled the mystery.
3. To cause to fail or become ruined or unfulfilled: Their plans to open a restaurant became unraveled.
v.intr.
2. To fail or become ruined or unfulfilled: His life unraveled after the stock market crash.
unravelling
(ʌnˈrævəlɪŋ)
n
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