Betekenis van:
riddle

to riddle
Werkwoord
  • met veel moeite bereiken
  • spread or diffuse through
"His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

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Hyponiemen

to riddle
Werkwoord
  • doorzeven, doorzeefd
  • pierce with many holes
"The bullets riddled his body"

Hyperoniemen

to riddle
Werkwoord
    • set a difficult problem or riddle
    "riddle me a riddle"

    Hyperoniemen

    to riddle
    Werkwoord
      • speak in riddles

      Hyperoniemen

      to riddle
      Werkwoord
        • separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

        Synoniemen

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        to riddle
        Werkwoord
          • explain a riddle

          Hyperoniemen

          riddle
          Zelfstandig naamwoord
          • opzettelijk duister geformuleerde vraag of omschrijving, waarvan men de oplossing moet raden
          • a difficult problem

          Synoniemen

          Hyperoniemen

          riddle
          Zelfstandig naamwoord
            • a coarse sieve (as for gravel)

            Hyperoniemen

            riddle
            Zelfstandig naamwoord
            • kwelspreuk
            • a difficult problem

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            Voorbeeldzinnen

            1. Is this a riddle?
            2. Don't leave the riddle.
            3. Oedipus had answered the riddle correctly!
            4. Just an audacious mind will solve this riddle.
            5. No one was ever able to solve the riddle.
            6. "I will let you pass safely," the Sphinx said, "if you can answer my riddle."
            7. If he could not answer the riddle, he would be eaten.
            8. How much we still have to pay for peace is a riddle.
            9. The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.