unriddle
verb
un·rid·dle ˌən-ˈri-dᵊl 
unriddled; unriddling; unriddles
transitive verb
: to find the explanation of : figure out, solve
unriddle a puzzle
no trouble unriddling three-part syllogisms 
New Yorker
New Yorker also : to make understandable : explain
just trying to unriddle the man Helen Dudar
Helen Dudar 
Synonyms
- answer
- break
- crack
- dope (out)
- figure out
- puzzle (out)
- resolve
- riddle (out)
- solve
- unravel
- work
- work out
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
I managed to unriddle the novel's central mystery before the main character did. the all-encompassing genius of Leonardo da Vinci is something that no biographer could ever hope to unriddle
Word History
First Known Use
circa 1586, in the meaning defined above
unriddled
verb
1
as in solved
to find an answer for through reasoning I managed to unriddle the novel's central mystery before the main character did Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- solved
- unraveled
- answered
- resolved
- worked out
- figured out
- riddled (out)
- doped (out)
- worked
- cracked
- ironed out
- concluded
- puzzled (out)
- deciphered
- inferred
- decided
- deduced
- wrought
- broke
- judged
- gathered
- reasoned
- straightened (out)
- presumed
- untied
- guessed
- cleared (up)
- assumed
- speculated
- divined
- conjectured
- unscrambled
- untangled
- decoded
2
as in explained
to make plain or understandable the all-encompassing genius of Leonardo da Vinci is something that no biographer could ever hope to unriddle Synonyms & Similar Words
- explained
- illustrated
- clarified
- demonstrated
- simplified
- got across
- illuminated
- spelled out
- interpreted
- construed
- elucidated
- cleared (up)
- explicated
- demystified
- expounded
- analyzed
- resolved
- specified
- defined
- solved
- decoded
- deciphered
- broke down
- disentangled
- unraveled
- annotated
- unscrambled
- untangled
- glossed
- undid
- commentated
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- obscured
- confused
- clouded
- confounded
- obfuscated
- befogged