RIDDLE


Meaning of RIDDLE in English

n. 25B6; verb

his car was riddled by gunfire : PERFORATE, hole, pierce, puncture, pepper.

he was riddled with cancer : PERMEATE, suffuse, fill, pervade, spread through, imbue, saturate, overrun, beset.

the soil must be riddled : SIEVE, sift, strain, screen, filter; archaic griddle.

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