Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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unravel

UK /(ˌ)ʌnˈɹævəl/ · US /ˌʌnˈɹævəl/ verb

Forms unravels unraveling unravelling unraveled unravelled unravellest unravelest unravelledst unraveledst unravelleth unraveleth

  1. verb To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle. “Mother couldn’t unravel the ball of wool after the cat had played with it.”
  2. verb To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric). “Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You’ll unravel it.”
  3. verb To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate. “to unravel the broad consensus which was created”
  4. verb (also reflexive) To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out. “to unravel the confusion    to unravel a plot”
  5. verb (obsolete) To reverse or undo (something); to annul, to negate.
  6. verb To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
  7. verb Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.
  8. verb (figurative) Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.

Synonyms

unsnarl disentangle feeze tease out untangle ravel unpuzzle unriddle straighten out absolve decipher get to the bottom of iron out meliorate puzzle out reason out resolve riddle sleuth solve unknot unscramble unpick ravel out run

Antonyms

ravel

Etymology

From un- (suffix denoting the inverse of the specified action) + ravel.
* Dutch ontrafelen (“to unravel”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.
  2. verb Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.
  3. verb To become unraveled, in any sense.

Etymology [1st pref. un- (intensive) + ravel.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “unravel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details