Raveling meaning : To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify. To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel. To become entangled. To become untwisted or unwoven. In the APL programming language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector. A tangled mess, a decomposition.