Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
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Ravelling
Synonyms for "ravelling" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Verb(3 words)
Strong matches (5)
Verb(4 words)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (7)
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More general
11 entriescomplexityconditiondisentangling actionentangling actionfabric defectfiberfibreintertwiningstatetextile processingthread manipulation
More specific
11 entriesdetangling fibersedge ravellingknot formationplot complicationseam ravellingsnarl formationtangle productionthread knotunknitting fabricunraveling yarnunwinding fiber
Collocations
11 entriescauses ravellingedge ravellingfabric ravellingraveling wiresraveling yarnravellerravelling extentravelling rateravelling threadsravelling yarnseam ravelling
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5 entriesDerivations
4 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Ravelling is necessary because the execute function in the IBM implementation only accepts charactervectors as argument.
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