Riddled
['ridld]
Definition
(adj.) (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes; 'a sweater riddled with moth holes'; 'cliffs riddled with caves'; 'the bullet-riddled target' .
(adj.) spread throughout; 'cities riddled with corruption' .
Typist: Meg--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Riddle
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Examples
- This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very warlike aspect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our smoke-stack was riddled with bullets, but there were only three men wounded on the boats, two of whom were soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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