(~s, riddling, ~d)
1.
A ~ 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 ~ if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to.
Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the ~ of the birth of the Universe.
= mystery
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3.
If someone ~s something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it.
Unknown attackers ~d two homes with gunfire...
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