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riddled


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Riddle  \Rid"dle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Riddled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Riddling}.] 
  1.  To  separate,  as  grain  from  the  chaff,  with  a  riddle;  to 
  pass  through  a  riddle;  as  riddle  wheat;  to  riddle  coal  or 
  gravel. 
 
  2.  To  perforate  so  as  to  make  like  a  riddle;  to  make  many 
  holes  in  as  a  house  riddled  with  shot. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  riddled 
  adj  1:  (often  followed  by  `with')  damaged  throughout  by  numerous 
  perforations  or  holes;  "a  sweater  riddled  with  moth 
  holes";  "cliffs  riddled  with  caves";  "the 
  bullet-riddled  target" 
  2:  spread  throughout;  "cities  riddled  with  corruption" 




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