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riddle

English

  1. 🔊 a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
  2. 🔊 a difficult problem
  3. 🔊 set a difficult problem or riddle
    “riddle me a riddle”
  4. 🔊 explain a riddle
  5. 🔊 speak in riddles
  6. 🔊 pierce with many holes
    “The bullets riddled his body”
  7. 🔊 separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
  8. 🔊 spread or diffuse through
    “An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 acertijo riddle
  2. 🔊 adivinanza riddle
  3. 🔊 enigma riddle, conundrum
  4. 🔊 acribillar to riddle, pepper (with holes, bullets etc.)

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