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Verb: riddle rid(u)l- Pierce with many holes
"The bullets riddled his body" - Set a difficult problem or riddle
"riddle me a riddle" - Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- screen - Spread or diffuse through
"His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" - permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue - Speak in riddles
- Explain a riddle
Noun: riddle rid(u)l- A difficult problem
- conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser - A coarse sieve (as for gravel)
Derived forms: riddled, riddling, riddles Type of: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, communicate, dumbfound, figure out, flummox, get, gravel, intercommunicate, lick, mystify, nonplus, penetrate, perforate, perplex, pierce, pose, problem, puzzle, puzzle out, screen, sieve, sift, solve, stick, strain, stupefy, vex, work, work out Encyclopedia: Riddle, Idaho Riddle, ID Riddle Riddle, Indiana Riddle, Oregon Riddle, Or Riddle, OR |