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.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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