unravelled BrE
unraveled AmE

We cannot let those crimes remain unravelled or, worse, forgotten.

Now that it is coming unravelled, the gap between the big four and the also-rans seems wider than ever.

The sleeve has become ravelled, which we may suppose to be the opposite of unravelled.

An unravelled turban can also be used as a rope to draw water from a well with a bucket.

Again the artwork featured an unravelled Rizla package, this time in green.

If we played without it we'd play with the fear of having it come unravelled or having our hair pulled.

"I remember my wife became very unravelled."

He spliced the unravelled end of the nylon rope to the second Thank, to make a single length five hundred feet long.

Basically, jump onto a stack of unravelled razor wire, and roll around till you die.

Alison stroked the unravelled ends of the hair.

Joe closed his eyes and tried to gather his unravelled nerves into a tight bundle again.

It is an unravelled or incomplete circle.

In the other, he held upright a small, carved doll with a shock of yellowish white hair made from unravelled string.

Triangles are generally written in the unravelled form:

With an ear-splitting crack, pieces of unravelled tentacle were spattered in all directions.

It was kinky, like an unravelled Brillo pad No, he thought coldly.

The glazing and kitchen laminates are organised chromatically to create the effect of an unravelled kaleidoscope.

The unravelled men screamed.

The mattress felt as if it was crowded with unravelled fencing wire, but right then it was heaven.

Warin was vague, and indeed to a man blindfolded and tied by night, time might stretch out like unravelled thread.

The seams between the planks had to be filled in or 'caulked' with 'oakum', a fibre made from unravelled rope.

Ultimately the wool is found to be Pob's unravelled jumper, and he is awoken to trace his name on the screen.

A trail of sodden, soiled paper curled from its bowl and wrapped around his feet like an unravelled bandage. '

From the girls' floral headpieces to their pleated and teased apart gowns, there was an unravelled 'festival' freedom felt throughout.

Knitters unpicked old jumpers, washed or seamed the unravelled wool and reknitted it.