0 a type of question that describes something in a difficult and confusing way and has a clever or funny answer, often asked as a game
1 to make a lot of holes in something:
The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.
2 a question that has a surprising or amusing answer, or something that is a mystery or is hard to explain:
Scholars have not completely solved the riddle of the sphinx.
3 to make a lot of holes in something:
Even the early statistical boards recognized that these publications were riddled with problems.
Many have admonished that the path toward ' enlightenment ' is riddled with traps and pitfalls, mainly from an inflated sense of self, ignorance or illusion.
He cites numerous collections and studies of sixteenthand seventeenth-century enigmas and riddles.
In a world riddled with illiteracy, prejudices and ignorance, the re-socialisation process will take time and effort.
Disappointingly, chapters 2-5 are also riddled with inaccurate information, unsubstantiated claims and a clear lack of knowledge of published literature in the field.
Every section is riddled with links connecting to further insight on whatever is being discussed.
The prose is generally involuted and riddled with technical jargon.
Of course, there are still many riddles that remain unsolved in this small region concerning the mechanism of the magnetic reconnection.
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