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Definition: UNRIDDLE |
UNRIDDLEIntransitive & transitive verb1. To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. |
Date "UNRIDDLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1693. (references) |
Note: Unriddle \Un*rid"dle\, transitive verb & intransitive verb. [1st pref. un- + riddle.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Discovery | Solve, resolve, elucidate; unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open; pick up, open the lock; find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle; interpret; disclose. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: UNRIDDLE |
| English words defined with "UNRIDDLE": To find out. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To endeavour to unriddle this little mystery was a useless labour. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unriddle | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "UNRIDDLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpjegoj (account for, clarify, construe, define, elucidate, explain, expound, interpret, justify, make understand, straighten, straighten out, take to pieces, tell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حل لغز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разгадавам (make out, puzzle out, read, study, unpuzzle, unthread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozluštit (crack, decipher, find out, puzzle out, solve, undo, unravel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éclaircir (unravel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | enträtseln (decipher, disentangle, guess, riddle, solve, to decipher, work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξηγώ (account for, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, gloze, interpret), λύω γριφόν. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megfejt (decipher, decode, interpret, riddle, solve, to decipher, to puzzle out, to resolve, to solve, to translate, to unriddle, to work out, translate, unscramble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iddleunray resolver (choose, compose, conclude, decide, deem, dissolve, figure out, find, fix, iron out, mean, nail down, resolve, settle, solve, unravel, work out), explicar (account, advance, clarify, construe, define, enucleate, explain, explicate, expound, gloss, illustrate, instantiate, interpret, justify, lay out, represent, resolve, solve, tell, to explain), decifrar (clear up, decipher, decode, find, guess, make out, read, resolve, spell out, unscramble). (various references) разгадать. (various references) tomhais (guess, measure, solve). (various references) rešiti zagonetku, odgonetnuti (puzzle, puzzle out). (various references) halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, Square, surmount, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, detach, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNRIDDLE": unriddled, unriddles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "UNRIDDLE" (pronounced 'Un*rid"dle'): Astraddle, Bandle, Beadle, Befuddle, Begirdle, Bemuddle, Bestraddle, Bodle, Boodle, Brandle, Caboodle, Candle, Coddle, Co-meddle, Croodle, Dandle, Encradle, fondle, Furdle, griddle, grindle, manhandle, Maudle, mishandle, Miskindle, noddle, Nuddle, Overhandle, Overmeddle, Piddle, Poodle, Pundle, Reddle, Reenkindle, rekindle, Rindle, Rondle, rundle, Scuddle, sidle, skedaddle, Spaddle, Subbeadle, treadle, tweedle, Unbridle, Unbundle, unsaddle, Unswaddle, Windle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: undried. | |
-2 letters: dindle, dirled, dirndl, dreidl, durned, indued, inured, lunier, nurled, ridden, riddle, rinded, ruddle, ruined, rundle. | |
-3 letters: dined, diner, dried, druid, dured, idled, idler, indue, inure, lined, liner, lured, lurid, nided, nuder, nudie, redid, riled, ruled, udder, under, undid, unled, urine. | |
-4 letters: deil, deli, deni, died, diel, dine, dire, dirl, dude, duel, dune. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: unbridled, underlaid, undrilled, unriddled, unriddles. | |
+2 letters: underlined. | |
+3 letters: disgruntled, undelivered. | |
+4 letters: overindulged, radionuclide. | |
+5 letters: denaturalized, denuclearized, multistranded, radionuclides, unbowdlerized, underinflated, underutilized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 52 49 44 44 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. .. -.. -.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01010010 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N R I D D L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0052 0049 0044 0044 004C 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5548524338384639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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