to unriddle

Examples

• All

• In a letter dated 1824, one young woman uses the phrase "to unriddle your mystery."

  Academic text (2004)

• It was on the job that I first met Dr. Alexander Anderson, whose mystery I would go to great lengths to unriddle.

  Academic text (2004)

• Yet insofar as the film unriddles the bait paradox with any concreteness, it does so at the level that, in every film, counts most: that of the visual image.

  Academic text (1997)

• Bob was certain that the man had unriddled him... had seen through his reasons for coming along... that Jesse could forecast each of Bob's possible moves and inclinations... and was only acting the innocent... in order to lull Bob into stupid tranquility and miscalculation.

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

• The detective worked tirelessly to unriddle the complex case that had baffled everyone.

• She hoped to unriddle the secrets hidden in the ancient manuscript.

• After much thought, he finally managed to unriddle the puzzle left by his grandfather.

Synonyms

U

to unravel

vsto unriddle

75 4.4

To find out what really happened in a confusing situation

focuses on explaining hard to understand things not only separating parts

U

to unravel the mystery

vsto unriddle

8 5.2

To make a difficult or confusing problem clear

is used to explain any hard to understand thing rather than only complex cases

P

to puzzle out

vsto unriddle

4 4.4

To think hard to find the answer to a difficult problem

means explaining something confusing rather than only working it out mentally

U

to unsnarl

vsto unriddle

1 7.6

To free something from a tangle, like knots in rope or wire

is about explaining unclear things rather than removing tangible tangles

Antonyms

M

to mystify

28 6.5

To make someone confused by making something seem mysterious

C

to confound

22 7.0

Make someone unable to think clearly

How Clear

to unriddle

1 7.2

to interpret

386 3.3

to suggest

∞ 1.6

guess

768 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology