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Unknit vs. Unravel — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Unknit and Unravel

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Definitions

Unknit

To unravel or undo (something knit or tied) or become unraveled or undone.

Unravel

To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of
Unraveled the sweater.

Unknit

To unravel.
Exhaustion will unknit even the ordered mind.

Unravel

To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads).

Unknit

To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.
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Unravel

To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve
The detective unraveled the mystery.

Unknit

Not knitted.

Unravel

To cause to fail or become ruined or unfulfilled
Their plans to open a restaurant became unraveled.

Unknit

To undo or unravel what is knitted together.
Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow.

Unravel

To become unraveled
The seam unraveled.
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Unravel

To fail or become ruined or unfulfilled
His life unraveled after the stock market crash.

Unravel

(transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle.
Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You'll unravel it.
Mother couldn't unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.

Unravel

To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.

Unravel

To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.
To unravel a plot
To unravel a mystery
To unravel the confusion

Unravel

To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
To unravel the global compromise achieved in the Constitutional Treaty
To unravel the broad consensus which was created

Unravel

To become undone; to collapse.

Unravel

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

Unravel

Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.

Unravel

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

Unravel

To become unraveled, in any sense.

Unravel

Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of;
The sweater unravelled

Unravel

Disentangle;
Can you unravel the mystery?
Unravel the ball or yarn

Unravel

Become undone;
The sweater unraveled

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