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Riddle

noun

A difficult problem. Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma.

A coarse sieve (as for gravel).

verb

(past & past part. riddled; pres. part. riddling)

Pierce with many holes.

Set a difficult problem or riddle.

Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff. Synonym: screen.

Spread or diffuse through. Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade. "Music penetrated the entire building" , "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

Speak in riddles.

Explain a riddle.

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"Riddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... the driver, and Bob had solved the riddle. He then told Mr. Waterman how he had tried to think what "Gi-may" meant, thinking at first that it meant something like "Allons" but that he had found out ...

— Bob Hunt in Canada • George W. Orton

... father, and marry his mother, the son forsook Corinth, and made his abode at Thebes. Meeting Laius in a narrow pass, and provoked by his attendants, he slew them and him. At Thebes there was a female monster, the Sphinx, who propounded a riddle, and each day devoured a man until it should be solved. Oedipus won the prize which the Queen Jocaste had offered; namely, the crown and her own hand to whomsoever should free the city. When his two sons and daughters had grown up, a pestilence broke ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

... could hold a man who knew how to pack himself in! It had a false bottom with a spring! One in hiding could escape that way!... Once closed on the person concealed within, the chair looked empty. A most ingenious hide-hole! Juve now knew the answer to the riddle of the bandit's disappearance. Within an ace of arrest, he had seized the chance offered by Juve's interchange of glances with the king, and with an acrobat's agility had slipped inside this chair! No sooner was the ...

— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre

... the invasion was that some week-end guest of the East Cliff Hotel left a copy of "The Riddle of the Sands" in the coffee-room, where von Gottlieb found it; and the fact that Ford attended the Shakespeare Ball. Had neither of these events taken place, the German flag might now be flying over Buckingham Palace. And, then again, it ...

— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis

... say, as the Frenchmen do, that their nation was taken by surprise. A nation, no more than a woman, is excused for the unguarded hour when the first adventurer who comes along can do violence to her. The riddle is not solved by such shifts, it is only formulated in other words. There remains to be explained how a nation of thirty-six millions can be surprised by three swindlers, and taken ...

— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx

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