RIDDLE


Meaning of RIDDLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪd(ə)l ]

( riddles, riddling, riddled)

1.

A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer.

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2.

You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to.

Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe.

= mystery

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3.

If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it.

Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire...

VERB : V n with n

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