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UNRIDDLE

Definition: UNRIDDLE

UNRIDDLE

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Synonyms within Context: UNRIDDLE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: UNRIDDLE

English words defined with "UNRIDDLE": To find out. (references)

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Use in Literature: UNRIDDLE

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

To endeavour to unriddle this little mystery was a useless labour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNRIDDLE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unriddle

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNRIDDLE

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

разгадать. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tomhais (guess, measure, solve). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rešiti zagonetku, odgonetnuti (puzzle, puzzle out). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNRIDDLE

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNRIDDLE": unriddled, unriddles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "UNRIDDLE"

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)

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Anagrams: UNRIDDLE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNRIDDLE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 52 49 44 44 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .-.    ..    -..    -..    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01010010 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#82 &#73 &#68 &#68 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0052 0049 0044 0044 004C 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5548524338384639

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INDEX

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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