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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unriddle.

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Examples

  • Behold Samson's riddle again unriddled, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness; for we have here an account of the good improvement which the psalmist made of that sore temptation with which he had been assaulted and by which he was almost overcome.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • Samson's riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that mysterious assassination, called “The assassination of the Fontainebleau barrier,” whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has never been unriddled.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Though you are thick with thinking, you have become as clear as a riddle unriddled.

    GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007

  • It now only remains to give you the full translation of the characters upon the parchment, as unriddled.

    The Gold-Bug 2006

  • We are happy to announce that we are deeply sorry to have unriddled the Lord of Primus Hook so effortlessly.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • We are happy to announce that we are deeply sorry to have unriddled the Lord of Primus Hook so effortlessly.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Even now, in winter-time, with most of the wood unriddled, and the rest of it pinched brown, it hung around us like a cloak containing little comfort.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • We are happy to announce that we are deeply sorry to have unriddled the Lord of Primus Hook so effortlessly.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • It unriddled the observations of drivellers and monstrous heads, — shewing a priori, it could not be otherwise, — unless ...

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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