Verb

to separate the threads (of); disentangle

Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You will unravel it.

Mother couldn't unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.

to become undone; to collapse

* 2010 , Ian Cowie, "State pension Ponzi scheme unravels with retirement at 70", The Telegraph , June 24th, 2010,

*:The great Ponzi scheme that lies behind our State pension is unravelling – as they all do eventually – because money being taken from new investors is insufficient to honour promises issued to earlier generations.

New Ponzi Scheme Unravels !

(figurative) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.

to unravel a plot

to unravel a mystery

to unravel the confusion

(figurative) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.

* Dryden

Art shall be conjured for it, and nature all unravelled .

''to unravel the global compromise achieved in the Constitutional Treaty

''to unravel the broad consensus which was created

Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.