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ravelled¹

Where it comes from

From ravel + -ed.

adjective more ravelled · most ravelled

  1. Entwined together; tangled. [I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]
  2. Unravelled; frayed.
  3. figuratively Complicated; confused; involved. What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?
  4. Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector. LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of ravel

ravelled²

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Origin unknown.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of bread: made from flour and bran.

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@misc{ravelled_2026,
  title = {ravelled},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ravelled},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}