riddle
noun
[ ˈrɪd(ə)l ]
• a question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning.
• "they started asking riddles and telling jokes"
riddle
verb
• speak in or pose riddles.
• "he who knows not how to riddle"
Origin:
Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’; related to Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel, also to read.
riddle
verb
• make many holes in (someone or something), especially with gunshot.
• "his car was riddled by sniper fire"
Similar:
perforate,
hole,
make/put/punch holes in,
pierce,
penetrate,
puncture,
honeycomb,
pepper,
prick,
gore,
bore through,
transfix,
• pass (a substance) through a large coarse sieve.
• "for final potting, the soil mixture is not riddled"
Similar:
sieve,
sift,
strain,
screen,
filter,
purify,
refine,
winnow,
bolt,
griddle,
riddle
noun
• a large coarse sieve, especially one used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel.
Origin:
late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum ‘sieve’, cernere ‘separate’, and Greek krinein ‘decide’.
