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Definition of riddle verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

riddle

verb
 
/ˈrɪdl/
 
/ˈrɪdl/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
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/
Idioms
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  1. 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’.
Idioms
be riddled with something
  1. 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.
See riddle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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