Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To solve or explain (a riddle or mystery).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To figure out the answer to a riddle.
- v. To solve a perplexing problem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- v. To read the riddle of; to solve or explain.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To explain or tell something to.
- To read the riddle of; solve or explain; interpret: as, to unriddle an enigma or mystery.
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Examples
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It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles ....
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In "Beyond Category," Hasse wisely does not try to unriddle the man but concentrates on his singular music.
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I would have some difficult words, which maybe you could unriddle...
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It was too comic to have stumbled across Europe and lighted on the very headquarters of the puzzle we had set out to unriddle.
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Mortals could be induced to forget much while they slept, even Gifted mortals, and in their vulnerability, he might have the chance to unriddle the mystery of the strangeness in the apprentice Bard's magick.
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He was endeavouring to unriddle all this with a brain that was already somewhat muddled with alcohol, when Captain Green got up from his chair and standing over the Major spoke his last words for that night as an oracle.
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You are perfectly innocent of having intended me any wrong; for you was then an infant: but I shall, I believe, unriddle all this the moment I mention my name.
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This was a mystery which our hero could by no means unriddle.
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And of all these desultory thoughts it came that I packed up that odious but very lovely locket, without further attempt to unriddle it, and persuaded my very good and clever Mrs. Busk to let me start right early.
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How would that distressingly gorgeous ice maiden unriddle it?
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