riddle
🇺🇸
/ˈrɪdl/
🇬🇧
/ˈrɪdl/
noun
R
A puzzle or question with a clever answer that you ask as a game.
Can you solve this riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
R
Something mysterious or hard to explain.
The disappearance of the ancient civilization remains a riddle to historians.
verb
R
To make many holes in something.
The old wooden fence was riddled with termite holes.
translation
A puzzle or question with a clever answer that you ask as a game.; Something mysterious or hard to explain.
To make many holes in something.
Word Forms
3rd Present
riddles
Past
riddled
Perfect
riddled
Progressive
riddling
Plural
riddles