riddle

Definition von riddle im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: to put something through a sieve
You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.; to fill with holes
The shots from his gun began to riddle the target.; A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"; to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
Riddle me this...., meaning Answer the following question.; to fill or spread throughout; to pervade
Your argument is riddled with errors.; A sieve; {v} to solve, sift, run through a sieve; {f} solve, interpret; swell up, inflate; perforate, pierce; detonate, explode; To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot; If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it. Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire. Deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game that has been a part of the folklore of most cultures from ancient times. Western scholars generally recognize two main kinds of riddle: the descriptive riddle, usually describing an animal, person, plant, or object in an intentionally enigmatic manner (thus an egg is "a little white house without door or window"); and the shrewd or witty question. A classical Greek example of the latter type is "What is the strongest of all things?" "Love: iron is strong, but the blacksmith is stronger, and love can subdue the blacksmith; A coarse sieve used for separating chaff from corn, sand from gravel, ashes from cinders; To speak ambiguously or enigmatically; set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"; a sieve; a puzzle; pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"; Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling; separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff; 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; To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel; a coarse sieve (as for gravel); A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer; a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature; To explain; to solve; to unriddle; explain a riddle; speak in riddles; explain a riddle speak in riddles pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"; You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to. Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe. = mystery; a coarse sieve (as for gravel) a difficult problem set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" explain a riddle speak in riddles pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body" separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff; 1 Riddiksbuck; worth about 15 eyes; common currency of small-scale business transactions; a coarse sieve (as for gravel) a difficult problem set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"; (from Old English roedel, from roedan meaning "to give council" or "to read"): A universal form of literature in which a puzzling question or a conundrum is presented to the reader The reader is often challenged to solve this enigma, which requires ingenuity in discovering the hidden meaning A riddle may involve puns, symbolism, or unusual imagery; a difficult problem; {i} puzzle, question or statement presenting a problem to be solved; enigma, mystery; sieve, screen used for sifting; A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it
riddle me this: Answer this question for me
Riddle me this, and guess him if you can, Who bears a nation in a single man?.
riddle stick: a fire poker with a perpendicular piece of iron at the end for raking ashes through the grate
riddle sticks: plural form of riddle stick
Jimmy Riddle: A piddle
a riddle wrapped up in an enigma: Something very mysterious and hidden
riddled: Simple past tense and past participle of riddle
a riddle: enigma
A riddle: puzzle
propound a riddle: present a puzzle, present an enigma
riddled: If something is riddled with bullets or bullet holes, it is full of bullet holes. The bodies of four people were found riddled with bullets
riddled: past of riddle
riddled: {s} spread throughout; perforated, having holes
riddled: damaged throughout by holes
riddled: If something is riddled with undesirable qualities or features, it is full of them. They were the principal shareholders in a bank riddled with corruption
riddled: spread throughout; "cities riddled with corruption
riddled: spread throughout, as an infestation
riddled: (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes; "a sweater riddled with moth holes"; "cliffs riddled with caves"; "the bullet-riddled target"
riddler: One who riddles grain, sand, etc
riddler: {i} person who speaks ambiguously (as in a riddle)
riddler: a puzzler
riddler: One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles
riddles: plural of riddle
riddles: third-person singular of riddle
riddling: Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle
riddling: present participle of riddle
the key to the riddle: the way in which to solve the puzzling question

riddle

Silbentrennung

rid·dle

Türkische aussprache

rîdıl

Synonyme

enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser, bewilderment, brain-twister, charade, closed book, complexity, complication, confusion, cryptogram, dilemma, distraction, doubt, embarrassment

Aussprache

/ˈrədəl/ /ˈrɪdəl/

Etymologie

() Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel", "opinion", "imagination", "riddle”), from Proto-Germanic *rǣdislijan (“counsel, conjecture”). Akin to Old Saxon rādisli (Dutch raadsel), Old High German rādisle (German Rätsel "riddle"), Old English rǣdan "to read, advise, interpret"