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riddle

/ˈɹɪdəl/ verb C2
  1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. (intransitive)
  2. To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question. (transitive) · Riddle me this.

He/she/it riddles · Past riddled · Past participle riddled · -ing form riddling

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Verb forms

Base form
riddle
He/she/it
riddles
Past
riddled
Past participle
riddled
-ing form
riddling

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“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 51 · B2
“Yes, yes,” replied Dantès eagerly; “I would beg of you, who see so completely to the depths of things, and to whom the greatest mystery seems but an easy riddle, to explain to me how it was that I underwent no second examination, was never brought to trial, and, above all, was condemned without ever having had sentence passed on me?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 166 · C1
“So I read the riddle.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 162 · C1

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