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Ravelled

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Entwined together; tangled.

    "[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]"

  2. 2
    Of bread: made from flour and bran. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Unravelled; frayed.
  4. 4
    Complicated; confused; involved. figuratively

    "What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?"

  5. 5
    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. 1
    simple past and past participle of ravel form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From ravel + -ed.

Etymology 2

From ravel + -ed.

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

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