Riddle Def Verb. The woods are riddled with rabbit holes. To make many holes in something or someone with something.
Riddle verb T MAKE HOLES to make a lot of holes in something. By the end of the game we had riddled the wall around the dartboard with a dozen little holes. Mystery Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of.
To be full of something especially something bad or unpleasant His body was riddled with cancer.
2 n-count You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to. More examples - hide examples Example sentences - Hide examples. A question puzzle or verse so phrased that ingenuity is required for elucidation of the answer or meaning. The word riddle might put you in mind of such brain-teasers as Why did the chicken cross the road but riddles actually have a distinguished history in English literature going back to the 10th century.
