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1. (n.) riddle
a question framed so as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum.
2. riddle
a puzzling question, problem, or matter.
3. riddle
a puzzling thing or person.
4. (v.i.) riddle
to propound riddles; speak enigmatically.
5. (v.t.) riddle
to pierce with many holes suggesting those of a sieve.
6. riddle
to fill or affect with (something undesirable):
a government riddled with graft.
7. riddle
to sift through a riddle, as gravel; screen.
8. (n.) riddle
a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry.
Etymology: (bef. 1100; (n.) ME riddil, OE hriddel, var. of hridder, hrīder, c. G Reiter; akin to L crībrum sieve; (v.) ME ridlen to sift, der. of the n.)
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1. (noun) riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser
a difficult problem
2. (verb) riddle
a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
3. (verb) riddle
pierce with many holes
"The bullets riddled his body"
4. (verb) riddle
set a difficult problem or riddle
"riddle me a riddle"
5. (verb) riddle, screen
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
6. (verb) permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
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"
7. (verb) riddle
speak in riddles
8. (verb) riddle
explain a riddle
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1. (noun) riddle
a game in the form of a question with a difficult or funny answer
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Riddle
a sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand
2. (noun) Riddle
a board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it
3. (noun) Riddle
something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling
4. (verb) Riddle
to separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel
5. (verb) Riddle
to perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot
6. (verb) Riddle
to explain; to solve; to unriddle
7. (verb) Riddle
to speak ambiguously or enigmatically
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Sense: a puzzle usually in the form of a question, which describes an object, person etc in a mysterious or misleading way
Can you guess the answer to this riddle?; The answer to the riddle `What flies for ever, and never rests?' is `The wind'.
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 Afrikaans: raaisel |
 Arabic: لُغْز، أحْجِيَه |
 Bulgarian: загадка |
 Brazilian: adivinha |
 Czech: hádanka |
 German: das Rätsel |
 Danish: gåde |
 Greek: αίνιγμα |
 Spanish: adivinanza, acertijo |
 Estonian: mõistatus |
 Farsi: معما؛ چیستان |
 Finnish: arvoitus |
 French: devinette |
 Hebrew: חִידָה |
 Hindi: पहेली |
 Croatian: zagonetka |
 Hungarian: találós kérdés |
 Indonesian: teka-teki |
 Icelandic: gáta |
 Italian: indovinello |
 Japanese: なぞなぞ |
 Korean: 수수께끼 |
 Lithuanian: mįslė |
 Latvian: mīkla |
 Malay: teka-teki |
 Dutch: raadsel |
 Norwegian: gåte |
 Polish: zagadka |
 Persian: معما؛ چیستان |
 Pashto: کيسې، معما |
 Portuguese: adivinha |
 Romanian: ghicitoare |
 Russian: загадка |
 Slovak: hádanka |
 Slovenian: uganka |
 Serbian: zagonetka |
 Swedish: gåta |
 Thai: ปริศนา |
 Turkish: bilmece |
 Taiwanese: 謎題 |
 Ukrainian: загадка |
 Urdu: پہیلی |
 Vietnamese: câu đố |
 Chinese: 谜语 |
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