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riddle English

Meaning riddle meaning

What does riddle mean?
Definitions in simple English

riddle Noun

— A riddle is something that is , hard to solve, or difficult to define. That question is quite a riddle.

riddle Verb

— To fill with holes. The shots from his gun began to riddle the target. — To be filled with. Your argument is riddled with errors. — To solve or answer a riddle or question. Riddle me this...., meaning Answer the following question. — To put something through a sieve. You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.

riddle

— verb pierce with many holes The bullets riddled his body — verb set a difficult problem or riddle riddle me a riddle — noun a difficult problem — noun a coarse sieve (as for gravel) — verb explain a riddle — verb speak in riddles — verb separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff — verb (= permeate, penetrate, diffuse) spread or diffuse through An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration music penetrated the entire building His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks

Synonyms riddle synonyms

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riddle English » English

puzzle enigma conundrum mystery screen sift problem sieve allegory question poser quiz penetrate parable fable brain-teaser trouble story sifter puzzler puncture pervade permeate make holes jigsaw puzzle interpenetrate imbue guess fairy tale engima diffuse bore winnow wimble why wattle vet unsettle topic tickler thrust throw terebrate tell tap tale stump strain stir sting

Topics riddle topics

What do people use riddle to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Story

Riddle
Language and thought Think Understand

Mysterious
Social behavior Social activity

Humor

Conjugation riddle conjugation

How do you conjugate riddle?

riddle · verb

Examples riddle examples

How do I use riddle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Life is a riddle and love is the answer.
It is no use trying to solve the riddle.
Let's try to solve the riddle.
The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.
Can you answer this riddle?
No one was ever able to solve the riddle.
His plans are a riddle.
Is this a riddle?
Do you know how to solve this riddle?
The King was so delighted at the way in which the farmer's daughter had solved the riddle that he immediately married her and made her his Queen.
I tried to ask her a riddle.
This riddle was hard to solve.
Is that a riddle?

Movie subtitles

And the little woman, whom we call hysterical, alone and unhappy, isn't she still a riddle for us?
Who can solve the riddle of life and death or fathom the dark secrets hidden from the light of day?
Riddle-dee-dee, riddle-dee-doe. get thee hence and stub thy toe.
When the boat arrives from the mainland, there will be 10 dead bodies and a riddle that no one can solve in the Indian Island.
I've got a riddle, Sam.
It's your silly riddle. You said.
This is a riddle.
A riddle?
It id a riddle.
That'd the riddle.
Becaude I'd found the andwer to a riddle.
Well, when I ask him, he says that it's a - a riddle.
Okay, then riddle me this.
Now Guess last riddle.
What kind of a riddle is this?
This is a riddle. A riddle?
When I ask him, he says it's a riddle without an answer.
We searched for survivors but all that we found was a riddle of the sea some tide-swept wreckage on the nearby beach.
Hey, a riddle!
Is that a riddle?
And in that moment I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite.
However, only one witness can shed new light on this tragic riddle.
Here's a little riddle for you.
First, we have come to one of those treacherous crevices that riddle the glacier of television.
None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing. nor none so bad it may not well be told. Heyday, a riddle.
I think the riddle will be solved tonight.
Solving the riddle of the universe.
Answer my riddle!
And what people live on is to me a riddle. They marry on an income of a two thousand crowns, when they need four thousand crowns. They borrow, of course, everyone borrows.
No one has yet solved the riddle of life.
That is the solution of the riddle of existence.
Will you answer me the riddle?
But he's a riddle, all that with Lucy.

News and current affairs

There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
So, those who are grappling with the Afghan riddle today should consider, first and foremost, the regional realities: can the West afford to withdraw?

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