riddle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of RIDDLE

to make a hole or series of holes in <several signs along the highway were riddled by buckshot>

Synonyms bore, drill, hole, pierce, punch, puncture, riddle

Related Words broach, tap; poke, prick, prickle; penetrate; burrow (into), excavate, gouge, groove, hollow; break, cut, gash, notch, rend, rupture, slash, slit, split

Near Antonyms fill, patch, plug, seal

to spread throughout <the newspaper exposé revealed a gaming commission that is riddled with corruption>

Synonyms interpenetrate, percolate (into), pervade, riddle, suffuse, transfuse

Related Words diffuse (through), impregnate, pass (into), penetrate; fill (up); drench, imbue, infuse, saturate, soak, steep; flood, glut

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