riddle
verb/ˈrɪdl/
/ˈrɪdl/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they riddle | /ˈrɪdl/ /ˈrɪdl/ |
| he / she / it riddles | /ˈrɪdlz/ /ˈrɪdlz/ |
| past simple riddled | /ˈrɪdld/ /ˈrɪdld/ |
| past participle riddled | /ˈrɪdld/ /ˈrɪdld/ |
| -ing form riddling | /ˈrɪdlɪŋ/ /ˈrɪdlɪŋ/ |
- riddle somebody/something (with something) to make a lot of holes in somebody/something
- The car was riddled with bullets.
- a bullet-riddled car
Word Originverb late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum ‘sieve’, cernere ‘separate’, and Greek krinein ‘decide’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See riddle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe riddled with something
- to be full of something, especially something bad or unpleasant
- His body was riddled with cancer.
- Her typing was slow and riddled with mistakes.
- The woods are riddled with rabbit holes.
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