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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "dizmal"
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{
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "繹"
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{
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"roman": "yì",
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"word": "绎"
},
{
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "解開"
},
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "dénouer"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "démêler"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "résoudre"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "entwirren"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "auftrennen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "aufdröseln"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "auseinanderdröseln"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "kibogoz"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "szálakra bont"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "rois"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "districare"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "smagliare"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "it",
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"word": "sfilacciare"
},
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "strigare"
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"alt": "とく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "toku",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "解く"
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "wete"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "whakamatara"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "ui"
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"word": "hīraurau"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "rakne"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "trevle"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "nn",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "rakna"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "trevla"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "teia"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"tags": [
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"word": "odplatać"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "desemaranhar"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "deșira"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "destrăma"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "raspútyvatʹ",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"imperfective"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "desenmarañar"
},
{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "desenredar"
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{
"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "deshilar"
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"_dis1": "66 9 2 21 2",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
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"sense": "to separate the threads (of)",
"word": "reda ut"
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"ref": "1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, London: C. & J. Ollier, act II, scene 1, page 63",
"text": "[…] the burning threads\nOf woven cloud unravel in pale air:",
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"ref": "2015 October 26, Lesley Nneka Arimah, “Who Will Greet You at Home”, in The New Yorker",
"text": "The yarn baby lasted a good month […] before Ogechi snagged its thigh on a nail and it unravelled as she continued walking […]",
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"(intransitive, of threads etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "razplitam",
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"word": "разплитам"
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"text": "to unravel a plot",
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"text": "to unravel a mystery",
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"text": "to unravel the confusion",
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"ref": "1683, John Dryden, “Life of Plutarch”, in Plutarchs Lives, volume 1, London: Jacob Tonson, page 9",
"text": "[…] he disputed best, and unravell’d the difficulties of Philosophy with most success when he was at Supper, and well warm’d with Wine.",
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"ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in A Study in Scarlet",
"text": "I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low, melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.",
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"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255",
"text": "Besides assisting in unravelling these two etymological conundrums, the present research also made an effort to approach a greater accuracy in presenting the original sources of borrowed words.",
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"To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve."
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"(transitive, figurative) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve."
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"word": "unriddle"
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"_dis1": "1 1 95 1 1",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "razgadavam",
"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "разгадавам"
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "treure l'entrellat"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "解開"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiěkāi",
"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "解开"
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
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"word": "objasnit"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "enträtseln"
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"_dis1": "1 1 95 1 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "lösen"
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "auflösen"
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "offenlegen"
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"_dis1": "1 1 95 1 1",
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "enthüllen"
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"_dis1": "1 1 95 1 1",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "hīraurau"
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"_dis1": "1 1 95 1 1",
"code": "te",
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"roman": "cikkudīyu",
"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "చిక్కుదీయు"
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"text": "to unravel the global compromise achieved in the Constitutional Treaty",
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"text": "to unravel the broad consensus which was created",
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"ref": "2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58",
"text": "Storm Charlie had raged throught [sic] the night and was unleashing further gusts on the morning that RAIL was due to inspect a vegetation management project in Kent. Bit by bit, the train timetable unravelled. A trip beginning at Bradford-on-Avon belatedly reached Bath, but that turned out to be journey's end.",
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"To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse."
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"(transitive, figurative) To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse."
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"word": "rozdělit"
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"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"word": "auftrennen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"word": "ausfasern"
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"ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in A Study in Scarlet",
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"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255",
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"ref": "2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58",
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "nn",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "ro",
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{
"code": "ro",
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "cmn",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "hīraurau"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "cikkudīyu",
"sense": "to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve",
"word": "చిక్కుదీయు"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozdělit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozházet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"word": "auftrennen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"word": "ausfasern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse",
"word": "zerfasern"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozpadnout se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sesypat se"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "einstürzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "zusammenstürzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "zusammenbrechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "zusammenfallen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "zugrundegehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "vernichtet werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "zunichte gemacht werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "kollabieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "disfare"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "desfazer-se"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to become undone; to collapse",
"word": "rämna"
}
],
"word": "unravel"
}
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