Isn’t it strange how somethings just leap, unbidden, to the front of your thoughts yet seem completely undecided on why they made the effort? They spend a few minutes occupying your thoughts with their apparent lack of purpose before vanishing back off into the long grass of your mind. The cognitive equivalent of a pheasant crossing the road.
Given things can unravel, can they ravel, or is unravelling the antonym of a word that doesn’t exist?
Let me Google th…
Sod it:
ravel /ravˈl/
transitive verb (ravˈelling; ravˈelled)
To entangle
To disentangle, untwist, unweave, unravel (usu with out)
intransitive verb
To become entangled
To be untwisted or unwoven
To search (with into; obsolete)
noun
A tangle
A broken thread
This local bike shop – who has helped me in the past with last minute mechanical emergencies – is rubbish! How dare they be more expensive than an online bike retailer!