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How to pronounce riddle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma
Type of problem
Type Words
Synonyms diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade
Type of perforate, penetrate
Has types spiritise, spiritize


His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks.
Type Words
Synonyms screen
Type of sift, sieve, strain
Type Words
Type of screen, sieve
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Type of work out, figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work
Type Words
Type of pierce


The bullets riddled his body.
Type Words
Type of stupefy, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, vex, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, amaze, stick, baffle, beat, bewilder


riddle me a riddle.
Type Words
Type of communicate, intercommunicate

Examples of riddle

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The man who would fully solve this riddle belongs to a later phase of the story.
From the bbc.co.uk
A larger question is, do we need to riddle the expressway with exits every mile?
From the charlotteobserver.com
Riddle agreed to do the stunt if her students reached this year's reading goals.
From the sltrib.com
Riddle made rambling comments about God and said he wanted to be treated fairly.
From the timesunion.com
Riddle also claims he was unable to file objections to the presentencing report.
From the freep.com
He knows something about the riddle of the tree falling in the empty auditorium.
From the time.com
The answer to this riddle is quite simply that they do show up in X-ray studies.
From the newscientist.com
Each of its 16 points contains a riddle referring to a place in that direction.
From the smh.com.au
Within each riddle, three minigames occur when you click on certain riddle items.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • A difficult problem
  • Pierce with many holes; "The bullets riddled his body"
  • A coarse sieve (as for gravel)
  • Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
  • Permeate: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
  • Speak in riddles
  • A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. ...
  • "Riddle" is a song by En Vogue, released as the first single from their fourth studio album Masterpiece Theater. "Riddle" was a top 40 hit in the UK, it achieved its most success in Belgium and The Netherlands. The radio version of "Riddle" was remixed by Stargate. ...
  • Riddle is Thomas Leeb's first available release and features nine instrumentals and one vocal song.