His frequent absences from home caused his marriage to unravel. I feel like my life is unraveling.

Something that's unraveled has been completely undone, whether it's a spool of thread, some knotty shoelaces, or your mental state after a long and frustrating day. You can also unravel a mystery by โ€ฆ

If something such as a plan or system unravels, it breaks up or begins to fail. His government began to unravel because of a banking scandal. [VERB] My perfect life had unraveled in the past six months. โ€ฆ

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Explanation of the difference between unraveling and unravelling with example usage of each in context.

Synonyms for UNRAVELING: fraying, disentangling, untwisting, undoing, untangling, smoothing, unweaving, unbraiding; Antonyms of UNRAVELING: entangling, snarling, tangling, tying, winding, โ€ฆ

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