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riddle (noun)
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?

riddle (noun)
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

riddle (verb)
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

riddle (verb)
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Riddle me this.

riddle (noun)
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.

riddle (noun)
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

riddle (verb)
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.

riddle (verb)
To fill with holes like a riddle.
The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.

riddle (verb)
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Your argument is riddled with errors.

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