Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)
1. to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
2. to unsew; to unstitch
3. to solve; to work out; to answer
4. to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
5. to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
6. to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
7. to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
Kanji used
unravel
Pitch accent
Top 1800
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
to solve a mystery
to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)
Examples (59 in total)
Were you able to solve the problem?
He solved all the problems.
I solved the problem easily.
Tell me how to solve the problem.
To his great joy, he succeeded in solving the problem.
You should try to figure it out for yourself.
I had difficulty in solving this problem.
He can't have solved it.
Thank you for clearing up the misunderstanding.
I solved the problem in this way.
Have you solved all the problems yet?
He tried to solve the problem.
It is difficult for me to solve that problem.
Could you help me solve this problem?
It is no use trying to solve this problem.
At last, he solved the problem.
I found it easy to solve the problem.
He solved the difficult problem easily.
It's almost impossible to work out this problem.
Allen was given a problem that was impossible to solve.
She could solve the problem with ease.
Anybody can solve that problem.
It was easy for him to solve the problem.
It is easy for you to solve this problem.
No one could solve the puzzle.
I can't figure out how to solve the puzzle.
He solved the problem with great ease.
He solved the problem with ease.
I want him to solve the problem.
No one could solve the problem.
This problem is too difficult for me to solve.
I found out how to solve the problem.
He succeeded in solving the problem.
None of the teachers could solve the problem.
My brother could not solve the complicated problem.
He does not know how to solve the problem.
There must be some way to solve this.
How did you solve the problem?
He tried solving the problem.
I can't solve the problem on my own.
It took me a couple of hours to solve this problem.
I could solve the problem without any difficulty.
Tom didn't know how to solve this problem.
I was able to solve that problem this morning.
Dick tried to solve that problem, but he couldn't.
He is clever enough to solve the problem.
This is how he solved the difficult problem.
Takeo is engrossed in solving mathematical problems.
It is said that nobody has solved the problem yet.
The student has already solved all the problems.
I'm really good at figuring out these kinds of problems.
At last, we succeeded in solving the question.
We were surprised at the ease with which he solved the problem.
This child solved the complicated mathematics problem easily.
The doctor is trying to solve many of the riddles of cancer.
He solved all those problems with ease.
The chimpanzee is an intelligent creature, capable of solving simple problems.
It took me five minutes to solve the problem.
It takes 10 minutes to solve this problem.