:to separate (something, such as grain from chaff) with a riddle:screen 2 :to pierce with many holes riddledthe car with bullets 3 :to spread through:permeate a bookriddledwith errors Did you know? RiddleMe This Riddlecomes from an Old English word meaning "opinion" or "conjecture" that...
The first thing that it makes me think of isriddled with bullets, or riddled with bullet holes (see photo)Many uses of "riddled with" are where something is figuratively full of something, i.e. has lots ofExamples:riddled with rustriddled with corruption riddled with fleasriddled with cancer...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrid‧dled/ˈrɪdld/adjective1→riddled with something2→riddled with holesExamples from the Corpusriddled•Her typing wasslowandriddledwithmistakes, the lay-outeccentric. Pictures of the day
(usually followed bywith)to pierce or perforate with numerous holes:riddled with bullets to put through a sieve; sift to fill or pervade:the report was riddled with errors n a sieve, esp a coarse one used for sand, grain, etc Etymology: Old Englishhriddela sieve, variant ofhridder; rela...
“We became compared with North Korea because the government created a cult of personality, telling us they were gods and we needed to worship them, creating a system to control the borders and killing anyone trying to escape or enter the country.” ...
“We became compared with North Korea because the government created a cult of personality, telling us they were gods and we needed to worship them, creating a system to control the borders and killing anyone trying to escape or enter the country.” ...