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
A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not ours, however, to unriddle the workings of a distant future, or to dwell upon the promised glories of a God-impelled and unimaginably potent Revelation.
From Citadel of Faith by Shoghi Effendi
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
The history of human-kind to trace, Since Eve—the first of dupes—our doom unriddled, A certain portion of the human race Has certainly a taste for being diddled.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Modern art may be a riddle to most people, but there are always experts indefatigably willing to try unriddling it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Prince continued his unriddling of the scheme hatched in Castile.
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
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
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
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 F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
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