unscramble
Americanverb (used with object)
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unscrambles,
present (3rd person singular)
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unscrambled,
past participle, past
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unscrambling
present participle
verb
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to resolve from confusion or disorderliness
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to restore (a scrambled message) to an intelligible form
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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unscramblesimple
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unscramblessimple
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have unscrambledperfect
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has unscrambledperfect
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am unscramblingprogressive
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are unscramblingprogressive
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is unscramblingprogressive
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have been unscramblingperfect progressive
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has been unscramblingperfect progressive
Past
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unscrambledsimple
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had unscrambledperfect
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was unscramblingprogressive
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were unscramblingprogressive
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had been unscramblingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of unscramble
Example Sentences
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And at this point, it may not be possible as a practical matter to unscramble the eggs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
The researchers first worked to unscramble the signals from Mr. Oskam’s brain.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 30, 2023
Only another briefcase with the same key on its paper tape could unscramble the message and convert the digits into a machine-like voice at the other end.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2022
“The people that win are the people who make the most attempts, the ones who are able to unscramble what it is that they’re asking faster than anybody else,” Davies said.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
My eyes could barely unscramble what they saw.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Now, she does exercises with Sunny in which she unscrambles sentences and puts the words in the right order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
“I spit it out and she unscrambles it. She does a great job.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
At the bottom of this page are 36 of the letter sets from the long-out-of-print “Big Book of ScrabbleGrams”; each unscrambles into a real word, but of course we don’t care about that.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means anyone who intercepts the messages in between can’t read them.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2021
"Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe in Me" , the line runs, before our brain unscrambles the rest of the offering, "God Only Knows", "Sloop John B" and the others.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010
Infecting smartphones or other gadgets being used for WhatsApp messages meant the content of messages encrypted during transmission could be accessed after they were unscrambled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
We may, for instance, receive a text that tells us what the spy is wearing, but it will need to be unscrambled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
The signal then reappeared in its original unscrambled form — in the ninth and last qubit, attached to the second SYK system, which represented the other end of the wormhole.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Only the recipient can see the unscrambled message.
From Fox News ● Jan. 11, 2021
I was unable to move until my brain had somewhat unscrambled itself.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
With the imminent publication of his final book titled "Magpie Murders," eagle-eyed readers would realize that unscrambling the first letters for each novel in the detective series would spell out "AN ANAGRAM."
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
Then, once one knows the colors, it’s simply a matter of unscrambling one’s guesses until they’re in the right order.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.
From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2020
One can see it in action over breakfast: think of the implausibility of unscrambling an egg and returning it to a pristinely pieced-back-together shell.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2020
This has been called the job of unscrambling the eggs.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
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