unriddle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
If he had suddenly begun to unriddle the problem of "the thing in itself," I should scarcely have been astonished.
From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich
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