I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
solve a riddle
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They still haven't really solved the riddle of how the pyramids were built.
sth is riddled with bullets (= something has a lot of bullets in it )
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The car was riddled with bullets.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
solve
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Yet we have been programmed to be curious, to question, to probe and to seek to solve riddles .
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As if a degree could solve the riddle of Comrade Cancer.
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On his wanderings Oedipus came to Thebes, solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and thus delivered the city.
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How could he make sense of it all unless he could first solve the riddle of himself?
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Vechey probably carried the vases around trying to solve the riddle .
speak
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Because he spoke riddles in verse, or because he didn't believe the story of Flodden?
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She talked in comparisons, she spoke in riddles .
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She is described by the Argive elders as speaking in riddles because they fail to understand her predictions.
talk
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She wished people wouldn't talk in riddles .
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He wasn't in the mood for some one who talked in poetic riddles .
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When Tweedledum and Tweedledee talk to Alice they are almost talking in riddles .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
riddled with holes
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The old table was riddled with holes.
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The ship returned from the war-zone riddled with bullet holes.
riddled with sth
talk in riddles
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She wished people wouldn't talk in riddles.
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When Tweedledum and Tweedledee talk to Alice they are almost talking in riddles.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Doctors have found a new clue to the riddle of cot death.
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How do we solve the riddle of the disappearing marriage?
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Oedipus came to Thebes and solved the riddle of the Sphinx.
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Other interviewers who have met Geri have tried to solve the riddle of her success.
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Why would Ian want to claim his inheritance and then give all his money away? It was a riddle to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because he spoke riddles in verse, or because he didn't believe the story of Flodden?
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But how many have ever stopped to consider this particular riddle ?
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How could he make sense of it all unless he could first solve the riddle of himself?
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I looked into the mirror, searching once again into the riddle of my face.
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On his wanderings Oedipus came to Thebes, solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and thus delivered the city.
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The chameleon on a mirror riddle is best kept in idealized form as a thought experiment.
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The package includes a pack of cards and a booklet which has a riddle running through its pages.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bullet
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Some activists fall, riddled with bullets , on the way.
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The car was riddled with bullets and Mr Nethanel was hit in the shoulder.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
riddled with holes
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The old table was riddled with holes.
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The ship returned from the war-zone riddled with bullet holes.
riddled with sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gunmen riddled the bus with bullets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even if they had the space, the concept is riddled with conflict.
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However, unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties.
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Jobs in the state sector are allocated by examination, but in reality the system is riddled with nepotism and clientism.
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The female self, under male domination, is riddled through and through with false or conditioned desires.
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The Supercontinent Cycle alone has left the continental crust riddled with the scars of former rifts and mergers.
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This is a field riddled with dilemmas.
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Unfortunately, the resulting shot called for the 2-iron, a club now riddled in dispute.