ravelment \RAV-uhl-muhnt\, noun:
Entanglement; confusion.
Hampered as I was by my well-known connection with the Gillespie poisoning case, I could not personally make a move towards the ravelment of its mystery without subjecting myself to the curiosity of the people among whom my attention of the District Attorney's office and the suspicion of the men whose business I was in a measure attempting to usurp.
-- Anna Katharine Green, One of My Sons
What I could see clearly, though, was the lower course of the burn: this bisected the small valley and appeared to loop around the far side of the dwelling, partly enfolding it before it broadened out and spread thence through arable to a ravelment of stone and incoming sea.
-- Clifford Geddes, Edge of the Glen
Ravelment derives from the word ravel which means "to become tangled". It entered English in the early 1800s.
糾纏\ RAV UHL-muhnt的\，名詞：
糾纏;混亂。
阻礙作為我我知名的吉萊斯皮中毒的情況下連接的是，我不能親自作出不服從自己的人的好奇心1實現了它的神秘糾纏移動其中我關注的地區檢察官辦公室和懷疑的人，他們的生意，我在試圖篡奪措施。
- 安娜·凱瑟琳·格林，我的一個兒子
我可以清楚地看到，雖然是燒傷當然這平分的小山谷和周圍居住的遠循環出現，部分捂著它之前，它擴大，並通過耕地那裡蔓延到石糾纏和傳入海。
- 克利福德格迪斯，幽谷邊緣
糾纏源於這意味著“成為糾纏不清的”字拉威爾。它在19世紀初進入英語。
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