[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ravel \rav"el\, v. i.
   1. to become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be
      relieved of intricacy.
      1913 webster

   2. to fall into perplexity and confusion. obs.
      1913 webster

            till, by their own perplexities involved,
            they ravel more, still less resolved. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. to make investigation or search, as by picking out the
      threads of a woven pattern. obs.
      1913 webster

            the humor of raveling into all these mystical or
            entangled matters.                    --sir w.
                                                  temple.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ravel \rav"el\ ra^v"'l, v. t. imp.  p. p. raveled -'ld
   or ravelled; p. pr.  vb. n. raveling or ravelling.
   od. ravelen, d. rafelen, akin to lg. rebeln, rebbeln,
   reffeln.
   1. to separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take
      apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed
      by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
      1913 webster

            sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
      1913 webster

   3. to pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them
      fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make
      intricate; to involve.
      1913 webster

            what glory's due to him that could divide
            such raveled interests? has the knot untied?
                                                  --waller.
      1913 webster

            the faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and
            indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or
            raveled and entangled in weak discourses --jer.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster
see also:
raveled ravelled raveling ravelling 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ravel
     n 1: french composer and exponent of impressionsim 1875-1937
          syn: maurice ravel
     2: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her
        stocking" syn: run, ladder
     v 1: disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?"; "unravel the
          ball or yarn" syn: unravel, ravel out
     2: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" syn: tangle, knot
        ant: unravel, unravel
see also:
maurice ravel run ladder unravel ravel out tangle 
knot 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

98 moby thesaurus words for "ravel":
   chinese puzzle, gordian knot, rube goldberg contraption, answer,
   ball up, bottom, can of worms, clarify, clear up, complex,
   complicate, confound, confuse, crack, debug, decipher, decode,
   disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, divine, do,
   dope, dope out, embrangle, entangle, explain, fathom, figure out,
   find out, find the answer, find the solution, foul up, get,
   get right, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, implicate,
   interpret, involve, jungle, knot, labyrinth, louse up, make out,
   maze, meander, mesh, mess, mess up, mix up, muck, muck up, muddle,
   open the lock, perplex, plumb, psych, psych out, puzzle out,
   ramify, ravel out, resolve, riddle, screw up, snafu, snake pit,
   snarl, snarl up, solve, sort out, tangle, tangled skein, unbraid,
   unclutter, uncoil, undo, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle,
   unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave,
   unwind, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness, work,
   work out

Ravel >> R Words
Ravel, definition of term: Ravel
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RAVeL - Réseau Autonome de Voies Lentes
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http://ravel.wallonie.be/, score=100, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 12:11 am

Maurice Ravel - Source page
...Maurice Ravel - Source page: None. None Maurice Ravel - Source page ... ..
http://www.maurice-ravel.net/, score=98, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 11:43 pm

Maurice Ravel
...However, Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, just as selfconscious, ... but Ravel's taste for sharply defined ideas and closed formal units ... ..
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ravel.html, score=98, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 2:34 pm

Maurice Ravel
...Marnat, Maurice. Maurice Ravel. Paris, Fayard, 1986, 828p.. Collection ... Ravel ... ..
http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/ravel/ravm.html, score=96, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:07 am

il bolero di ravel
..."Il Bolero di Ravel" è la danza sul filo del rasoio, sul bordo estremo ... Il "Bolero" di Ravel è la scoperta continua di sonorità nuove e nuovi ... ..
http://www.ilbolerodiravel.org/, score=92, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 11:13 pm

Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937)
...The Sonatina is in Ravel's neo-classical style and Le tombeau de ... Ravel wrote his ballet Daphnis et Chloé in response to a commission ... ..
http://www.hnh.com/composer/ravel.htm, score=91, date indexed=November 4, 2005, 4:10 pm

Freddie Ravel
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http://www.freddieravel.com/freddieravel/, score=90, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:16 pm

Freddie Ravel
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http://www.freddieravel.com/, score=89, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 11:56 pm

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