Usually means: Comes apart; disentangles or clarifies.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word unravels:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. unravels: Merriam-Webster
  2. unravels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unravels: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unravels: Vocabulary.com
  5. Unravels, unravels: Wordnik
  6. unravels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unravels: Wiktionary
  8. unravels: Dictionary.com
  9. unravels: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. unravels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unravels: Legal dictionary

(Note: See unravel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (unravel)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
verb:  To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
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.
verb:  (obsolete) To reverse or undo (something); to annul, to negate.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
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.
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.
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