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RIDDLED
riddled
(adjective) (often followed by âwithâ) damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes; âa sweater riddled with moth holesâ; âcliffs riddled with cavesâ; âthe bullet-riddled targetâ
riddled
(adjective) spread throughout; âcities riddled with corruptionâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
riddled
simple past tense and past participle of riddle
Adjective
riddled (comparative more riddled, superlative most riddled)
Damaged throughout by holes.
Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
Anagrams
• diddler
Source: Wiktionary
RIDDLE
Rid"dle, n. Etym: [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.]
1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling.]
1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Rid"dle, n. Etym: [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. rraadsel, G. rÀthsel; fr. AS. r to counsel or advise, also, to guess. sq. root116. Cf. Read.]
Definition: Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras.
Rid"dle, v. t.
Definition: To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. Dryden.
Rid"dle, v. i.
Definition: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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