Most overhead systems include a brake to stop the wires from unravelling completely should a wire break or tension be lost for any other reason.

This policy is completely unravelling.

They recovered - and trailed by only 19-18 at the end of the first quarter - only to completely unravel before halftime.

Ambitious culinary schemes are deferred, and gradually unravel completely.

This bluff of hiding under Russian subs was about to unravel completely.

His control threatened to unravel completely as she slipped her arm around his, pressing close.

Eventually, it would unravel completely.

"When you pull on the center of a string figure, it unravels completely," Mr. Sherman said.

By the beginning of November, her situation was completely unravelling.

The Jets' playoff hopes this morning were dangling like a thread from a sweater that could unravel completely.