unravelling

Speech parts

1. unravelling - Noun

2. unravelling - Verb

Derived from unravel

Meaning

unravelling

(British spelling) present participle of unravel

unravelling (plural unravellings)

The act of becoming unravelled.
the unravelling of cellular mechanisms
the unravelling of the global financial system

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Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe. James Callaghan

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... V. S. Naipaul

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents. Christian Louboutin

And as twilight falls on the unravelling world, Cooley remembers one thing that gives him hope: the time he lost his bank card and it was returned to him. Source: Internet

Criticism has mainly focused on: * the lack of awareness of the structural socio-economic conditions of society (see Skocpol 1996; Skocpol, T. (1996) Unravelling from Above. Source: Internet

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