Crossword-Solution: RIDDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Riddle | n. | 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. |
| Riddle | n. | A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. |
| Riddle | v. t. | To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. |
| Riddle | v. t. | To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. |
| Riddle | n. | Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. |
| Riddle | v. t. | To explain; to solve; to unriddle. |
| Riddle | v. i. | To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RIDDLE | anagram | DREIDL, LIDERD, RIDDEL |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with RIDDLE (5)
Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king.
And who, by your favour, Sir, may be the father of yonder babe—it is some three or four months old, I should judge—which Mistress Prynne is holding in her arms?” “Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting,” answered the townsman.
But how to reach them, now that I had found the only vulnerable spot in their mighty prison, was still a baffling riddle.
These: (Figure 3) The suggested solutions of this riddle are practically innumerable; they would fill a book.
Little did he know that this book held between its covers the key to his origin—the answer to the strange riddle of his strange life.
Quotes with RIDDLE (3)
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
Nix to Declan: Begin transcript — Testing. Hello, hellooo, anybody out there? Check, check, one, two. Soft pee. Puh, puh. Resonance! Sooooooft pee. Alpha bravo disco tango duck. This is Nïx! I’m the Ever-Knowing One, a goddess incandescent, incomparable, and irresistible. But enough about what you think of me. It’s a beautiful day in New Orleans. The wind is out of the east at a steady five knots and clouds look like rabbits … But enough about what you think of me! Now, down …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 62 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).