ravel
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they ravel | |
| he / she / it ravels | |
| past simple ravelled | |
| past participle ravelled | |
| (US English) past simple raveled | |
| (US English) past participle raveled | |
| -ing form ravelling | |
| (US English) -ing form raveling |
- ravel something
to make a situation or problem more complicated 使更复杂；使更纷乱 Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘entangle, confuse’): probably from Dutch ravelen ‘fray out, tangle’.