riddle
/ˈɹɪdəl/
Misollar
- Can you guys solve the riddle?
- Have you solved the riddle yet?
- This riddle was hard to solve.
- Oedipus had answered the riddle correctly!
- I need a hint for this riddle.
- I'm still thinking about the riddle.
ot noun
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A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- 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.
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
fe’l verb
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To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Riddle me this.
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To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
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To fill with holes like a riddle.
The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.
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To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Your argument is riddled with errors.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.