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un·rid·dle

 (ŭn-rĭd′l)
tr.v. un·rid·dled, un·rid·dling, un·rid·dles
To solve or explain (a riddle or mystery).

un·rid′dler n.
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unriddle

(ʌnˈrɪdəl)
vb
(tr) to solve or puzzle out
[C16: from un-2 + riddle1]
unˈriddler n
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un•rid•dle

(ʌnˈrɪd l)

v.t. -dled, -dling.
to solve (a riddle, mystery, etc.).
[1580–90]
un•rid′dler, n.
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unriddle


Past participle: unriddled
Gerund: unriddling

Imperative
unriddle
unriddle
Present
I unriddle
you unriddle
he/she/it unriddles
we unriddle
you unriddle
they unriddle
Preterite
I unriddled
you unriddled
he/she/it unriddled
we unriddled
you unriddled
they unriddled
Present Continuous
I am unriddling
you are unriddling
he/she/it is unriddling
we are unriddling
you are unriddling
they are unriddling
Present Perfect
I have unriddled
you have unriddled
he/she/it has unriddled
we have unriddled
you have unriddled
they have unriddled
Past Continuous
I was unriddling
you were unriddling
he/she/it was unriddling
we were unriddling
you were unriddling
they were unriddling
Past Perfect
I had unriddled
you had unriddled
he/she/it had unriddled
we had unriddled
you had unriddled
they had unriddled
Future
I will unriddle
you will unriddle
he/she/it will unriddle
we will unriddle
you will unriddle
they will unriddle
Future Perfect
I will have unriddled
you will have unriddled
he/she/it will have unriddled
we will have unriddled
you will have unriddled
they will have unriddled
Future Continuous
I will be unriddling
you will be unriddling
he/she/it will be unriddling
we will be unriddling
you will be unriddling
they will be unriddling
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been unriddling
you have been unriddling
he/she/it has been unriddling
we have been unriddling
you have been unriddling
they have been unriddling
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been unriddling
you will have been unriddling
he/she/it will have been unriddling
we will have been unriddling
you will have been unriddling
they will have been unriddling
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been unriddling
you had been unriddling
he/she/it had been unriddling
we had been unriddling
you had been unriddling
they had been unriddling
Conditional
I would unriddle
you would unriddle
he/she/it would unriddle
we would unriddle
you would unriddle
they would unriddle
Past Conditional
I would have unriddled
you would have unriddled
he/she/it would have unriddled
we would have unriddled
you would have unriddled
they would have unriddled
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
References in classic literature ?
You are perfectly innocent of having intended me any wrong; for you was then an infant: but I shall, I believe, unriddle all this the moment I mention my name.
He estimates him fairly, indeed, and understands him well; but he unriddles his character rather by acuteness than by sympathy.
He speaks with ROTIMI IGE about his upcoming 'Unriddle' conference, among other topics.
[...] I am looking for and I accept only a new world, rejuvenated, freshened precisely by the wish to discover the unknown, to unriddle its enigma.
With actionable insights into customers' feelings, unspoken needs, attitudes, and choices, we can unriddle the puzzle and know what to say, how, and when, to turn them into loyal followers."
It is words after all that turn the irrational into the rational, and, as she writes, "Empire fears and resents rational discourse, the tested intuitions, the bare facts that offer us the means to approach, unmask, unriddle the enigmatic and vertiginous world."
Count on Oedipus to show up on a Greek amphora with the Sphinx he would unriddle. You've doubtless noticed that Narasingh, the fourth avatar of Vishnu, is a Man-Lion.
No reclamation project can unriddle that lost past, as essential as it is invisible.
Still, this is another potent allegory, something to unriddle, or at least to be chastened by.
Or, as in the demented Balkan theologies so thoroughly ventilated by Milorad Pavic in his Dictionary of the Khazars, before he sold out to the Serbian sex criminals: perhaps a search for all the pieces of the broken body of the original Adam (Cadmon or Ruhani), whose angle-making re-assembly, by glossaries and alphabeticons, will unriddle the Universe.