Riddle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pierce with numerous holes; perforate: riddle a target with bullets.
  • v. To spread throughout: "Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse” ( New Republic).
  • v. To put (gravel, for example) through a coarse sieve.
  • n. A coarse sieve, as for gravel.
  • n. A question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand; a conundrum.
  • n. One that is perplexing; an enigma.
  • v. To solve or explain.
  • verb-intransitive. To propound or solve riddles.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak in riddles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"
  • v. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  • v. To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
  • n. A sieve.
  • v. To fill with holes.
  • v. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
  • v. To put something through a sieve
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  • n. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
  • v. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle.
  • v. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in.
  • n. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
  • v. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A proposition so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in discovering its meaning; an ambiguous, complex, or puzzling question offered for solution; an enigma; a dark saying.
  • n. Anything abstruse, intricate, paradoxical, or puzzling; a puzzle.
  • n. A person who manifests ambiguities or contradictions of character or conduct.
  • To explain; interpret; solve; unriddle.
  • To understand; make out.
  • To puzzle; perplex.
  • To speak in riddles, ambiguously, or enigmatically.
  • n. A sieve, especially a coarse one for sand, grain, and the like.
  • n. In founding, a sieve with half-inch mesh, used in the molding-shop for cleaning and mixing old floor-sand.
  • n. In hydraulic engineering, a form of river-weir.
  • n. In wire-working, a flat board set with iron pins sloped in opposite directions. It is used to straighten wire, which is drawn in a zigzag course between the pins.
  • To sift through a riddle or sieve: as, to riddle sand.
  • To sift by means of a coarse-netted dredge, as young oysters on a bed.
  • To reduce in quantity as if by sifting; condense.
  • To fill with holes; especially, to perforate with shot so as to make like a riddle; hence, to puncture or pierce all over as if with shot; penetrate.
  • To use a riddle or sieve; pass anything through a riddle.
  • To fall in drops or fine streams, as through a riddle or sieve.
  • n. A curtain; a bed-curtain; in a church, one of the pair of curtains inclosing an altar on the north and south, often hung from rods driven into the wall.
  • To plait.
  • n. In minting. See the extract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. speak in riddles
  • v. set a difficult problem or riddle
  • v. pierce with many holes
  • n. a difficult problem
  • v. spread or diffuse through
  • v. explain a riddle
  • v. separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
  • n. a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
  • Verb Form
    riddled    riddles    riddling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    communicate    intercommunicate    puzzle    vex    beat    stick    get    bewilder    perplex    dumbfound   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    enigma    explain    solve    unriddle    sieve    sift    perforate    conundrum    brain-teaser   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Biddle    Piddle    fiddle    kiddle    middle    piddle    twiddle    widdle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    enigma    dilemma    puzzle    paradox    mystery    conundrum    contradiction    allusion    proverb    anomaly