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riddle 音标拼音: [r'ɪdəl] n. 谜,谜语,粗筛
vt. 解谜,给…出谜,筛,检查,鉴定,非难,充满于
vi. 出谜 谜,谜语,粗筛解谜,给…出谜,筛,检查,鉴定,非难,充满於出谜 riddle n 1: a difficult problem [ synonym: { riddle}, { conundrum}, { enigma}, { brain- teaser}] 2: a coarse sieve ( as for gravel) v 1: pierce with many holes; " The bullets riddled his body" 2: set a difficult problem or riddle; " riddle me a riddle" 3: separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [ synonym: { riddle}, { screen}] 4: spread or diffuse through; " An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; " music penetrated the entire building"; " His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" [ synonym: { permeate}, { pervade}, { penetrate}, { interpenetrate}, { diffuse}, { imbue}, { riddle}] 5: speak in riddles 6: explain a riddleRiddle \ Rid" dle\, v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle. [ 1913 Webster] Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Riddle \ Rid" dle\, v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. " Lysander riddles very prettily." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Riddle \ Rid" dle\ ( r[ i^] d" d' l), n. [ OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. kri` nein to distinguish, separate, and G. rein clean. See { Crisis}, { Certain}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. [ 1913 Webster]
Riddle \ Rid" dle\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Riddled} ( r[ i^] d" d' ld); p. pr. & vb. n. { Riddling} ( r[ i^] d" dl[ i^] ng).] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. [ 1913 Webster]
Riddle \ Rid" dle\, n. [ For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. r[= ae] dels; akin to D. raadsel, G. r[ aum] thsel; fr. AS. r[= ae] dan to counsel or advise, also, to guess. [ root] 116. Cf. { Read}.] Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. [ 1913 Webster] To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] ' T was a strange riddle of a lady. -- Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster] 392 Moby Thesaurus words for " riddle": Chinese puzzle, anagram, answer, arabesque, assort, auger, babble, baffle, bafflement, basketry, basketwork, be Greek to, be beyond one, be too deep, beat one, bewilderment, bite, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blow to pieces, blow up, bolt, bolter, bore, bother, bottom, brain, brand, bring down, broach, burn to death, cancellation, categorize, chalk, chalk up, charade, charge, check, check off, cicatrize, clarifier, classify, clear up, cock, colander, collate, confoundment, confusion, conundrum, cordon, cordon off, countersink, crack, cradle, cribble, cribriformity, cribrosity, cross- hatching, crossing- out, cull out, cut down, cut to pieces, dapple, dark horse, dash, deal a deathblow, debug, decipher, decode, define, delimit, demarcate, detonate, dilemma, discharge, discolor, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disentangle, disintegrate, disturbance, divide, divine, do, dope, dope out, dot, drill, drop, eject, embarrassment, empierce, engrave, enigma, escape one, explain, fathom, fell, figure out, filigree, fill, filter, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fire, fire off, fix, fleck, frag, freckle, fret, fretwork, frontier, frontiers of knowledge, gash, get, get right, ghettoize, gibber, gin, gore, gouge, gouge out, gradate, grade, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, group, guess, guess right, gun, gun down, gun for, hachure, hatch, hatching, have it, hit, hit it, hole, honeycomb, impale, impress, imprint, incinerate, infect, infest, insulate, interlacement, interpret, intertexture, intertwinement, isolate, jam, jugulate, keep apart, keep aside, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lance, lapidate, lattice, latticework, lay aside, lay low, let fly, let off, line, lixiviator, load, logogriph, lose one, make a mark, make out, mark, mark off, mark out, matter of ignorance, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mottle, mystery, mystification, n, need explanation, needle, net, netting, network, nick, nonplus, not make sense, not penetrate, notch, open the lock, pass comprehension, pelt, pencil, penetrate, pepper, percolator, perforate, permeate, perplex, perplexity, perturbation, pervade, pick off, pick out, pickle, pierce, pink, pistol, plexure, plexus, plight, plug, plumb, point, poleax, porosity, porousness, poser, pot, pother, potshoot, potshot, predicament, prick, prime, print, problem, psych, psych out, punch, punctuate, puncture, purifier, put aside, puzzle, puzzle out, puzzlement, quandary, quarantine, question, raddle, rank, ravel, ravel out, ream, ream out, rebus, refiner, refinery, resolve, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, rocker, run through, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, screen, screening, seal, sealed book, seam, seclude, segregate, separate, set apart, set aside, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, sieve, sievelikeness, sift, sifter, silence, size, skewer, snipe, solve, sort, sort out, sorter, speak in tongues, spear, speck, speckle, spike, spit, splotch, sponge, spot, spread, stab, stab to death, stain, stamp, stew, stick, stigmatize, stone, stone to death, strainer, streak, striate, strike, strike dead, stripe, subordinate, take a potshot, talk double Dutch, tap, tattoo, terra incognita, texture, the incalculable, the strange, the unfamiliar, the unknowable, the unknown, thrash, thresh, tick, tick off, tissue, torpedo, trace, tracery, transfix, transpierce, trellis, trelliswork, trepan, trephine, unassuredness, underline, underscore, undo, unexplored ground, unexplored territory, unknown quantity, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, upset, vaporize, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, why, wicker, wickerwork, winnow, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine, work, work out, x, z |
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