Riddle | Mean of riddle in English Dictionary

/ˈrɪdl̟/

• Noun
• a difficult question that is asked as a game and that has a surprising or funny answer
1. The first person to solve the riddle wins a candy bar.
2. Stop speaking in riddles. [=stop speaking in a confusing way]
• someone or something that is difficult to understand or solve
1. the riddle of the origins of the universe
2. My brother has always been a riddle to me.
• Verb
• to make many holes in (something or someone) with something
1. The robbers riddled the car with bullets.

• to fill (something) with something that is bad or unpleasant
1. The book is riddled with mistakes. [=the book has many mistakes]
2. Their theory is riddled with contradictions.