Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To solve or explain (a riddle or mystery).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To explain or tell something to.
- To read the riddle of; solve or explain; interpret: as, to
unriddle an enigma or mystery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To read the riddle of; to solve or explain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
figure out theanswer to ariddle . - verb To solve a
perplexing problem.
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Examples
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It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles ....
Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide Kim Cranston 2010
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It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles ....
Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide Kim Cranston 2010
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It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles ....
Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide Kim Cranston 2010
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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...
Atta wins the WS 2006
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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.
Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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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.
Greenmantle 2005
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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.
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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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.
The Duke's Children 2004
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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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