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
There are things in the world that may not be unriddled.
From The Blind Spot by Austin Hall
Modern art may be a riddle to most people, but there are always experts indefatigably willing to try unriddling it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Irish mysteries are coming to be unriddled now, but there will be no unriddling of that.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
The outcome of this exhaustive and unprofitable labor was the fascinating story of "The Gold Bug," a story in which the discovery of hidden treasure is brought about by the unriddling of an intricate cipher.
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
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 The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
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