riddle

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 a question that is difficult to understand, and that has a surprising answer, that you ask sb as a game: Stop talking in riddles (= asking questions that are confusing)-say what you mean. * to solve the riddle of the Sphinx 2 a mysterious event or situation that you cannot explain: the riddle of how the baby died verb [VN] [usuallypassive] to make a lot of holes in sb/sth: The car was riddled with bullets. * a bullet-riddled car IDIOMS be riddled with sth to be full of sth, especially sth bad or unpleasant: His body was riddled with cancer. * Her typing was slow and riddled with mistakes. * The woods are riddled with rabbit holes.