- riddled - (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes; "a sweater riddled with moth holes"; "cliffs riddled with caves"; "the bullet-riddled target"
Antonym: undamaged (indirect, via damaged)
- riddled - spread throughout; "cities riddled with corruption"
Antonym: empty (indirect, via full)
- riddle - pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
--1 is one way to pierce
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- riddle - set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
--2 is one way to perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun riddle1
Something ----s
Something ----s somebody
- riddle, screen - separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
--3 is one way to sift, sieve, strain
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun riddle2
Somebody ----s something
- riddle - speak in riddles
--4 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun riddle1
Somebody ----s
- riddle - explain a riddle
--5 is one way to solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- riddle - set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"