unriddle
Americanverb (used with object)
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As I drank, I became aware that I was perched on the edge of my seat, fully at attention as I attempted to unriddle its intriguing, distantly familiar contents.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024
In Marsala, I went back for seconds then thirds of Ristorante I Bucanieri's eggplant parm, trying to unriddle its confoundingly luxe texture.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2023
She told me that Wallace's crush was "a mystery I haven't been able to unriddle."
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2012
The most nonsensical notion, the most casual slip of the tongue, the most fantastic dream, must have a meaning and can be used to unriddle the often incomprehensible maneuvers we call thinking.
From Time Magazine Archive
She looked at him, with a strange expression which he could not unriddle, and there was a shade of scorn in her voice as she replied, "No, certainly not in this plan."
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
Jackie Gervercer tended bar and oversaw the cocktail menu, meaning she likely contrived the sugared rim and the addition of egg whites, which writer Chuck Sudo unriddled back in 2012 for the Chicagoist.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
Over time, I've unriddled a few secrets to a better French press brew.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2021
Ginsberg’s system handled the grid, and the colder mathematical side of things, searching and placing answers, while the Berkeley team’s system unriddled the hazier, “human” side of the language of the clues, crosswords’ music.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2021
There is mystery about Zita's male parentage which, when unriddled, restores society to good standing in the woods and Zita to her rich lover.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her husband was the unriddled riddle we have in the wealthy young lord,—burning to possess, and making, tatters of all he grasped, the moment it was his own.
From The Amazing Marriage — Complete by Meredith, George
Modern art may be a riddle to most people, but there are always experts indefatigably willing to try unriddling it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imperfect as was this method, yet in the flourishing period of the Inca government the appointed officers had acquired great dexterity in unriddling the meaning of the knots.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
A melody which made him doubt his ears, The cause being past his guessing or unriddling; A pipe, too, and a drum, and shortly after, A most unoriental roar of laughter.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Rose Love stood up unriddling this, Till shadows in my eyes grew old; Then warmed the lock with sudden kiss; Now flames it gold.
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Dargan, Olive Tilford
There were regular interpreters in attendance, who made considerable sums out of the recipients by expounding and unriddling these oracles.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
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