"riddle" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɪdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: riddles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪdəl Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|redel}} Middle English redel, {{m|enm|redels}} redels, {{inh|en|ang|rǣdels}} Old English rǣdels, {{m|ang|rǣdelse|t=counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle}} rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*rādislī|t=counsel, conjecture}} Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”), {{af|en|rede|-le|t1=advice}} rede (“advice”) + -le, {{cog|ang|rǣdan||to read, advise, interpret}} Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} riddle (plural riddles)
  1. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature. Synonyms: enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser Translations (verbal puzzle): raaisel (Afrikaans), gjëegjëzë [feminine] (Albanian), gjëagjëzë [feminine] (Albanian), sitë [feminine] (Albanian), αἴνιγμα (aínigma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), γρῖφος (grîphos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), ⁧لُغْز⁩ (luḡz) [masculine] (Arabic), ⁧أُحْجِيَّة⁩ (ʔuḥjiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), ⁧مُعْضِلَة⁩ (muʕḍila) [feminine] (Arabic), ⁧فزّورة⁩ (fɑzzūrɑ) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), հանելուկ (haneluk) (Armenian), সাঁথৰ (xãthor) (Assamese), tapmaca (Azerbaijani), müəmma (Azerbaijani), зага́дка (zahádka) [feminine] (Belarusian), га́танка (gátanka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), зага́дка (zagádka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), စကားထာ (ca.ka:hta) (Burmese), endevinalla [feminine] (Catalan), 謎語 (Chinese Mandarin), 谜语 (míyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), hádanka [feminine] (Czech), gåde [common-gender] (Danish), raadsel [neuter] (Dutch), enigmo (Esperanto), mõistatus (Estonian), gáta (Faroese), arvoitus (Finnish), énigme [feminine] (French), devinette [feminine] (French), devinaille (French), adiviñanza [feminine] (Galician), cousiliña [feminine] (Galician), adiviña [feminine] (Galician), გამოცანა (gamocana) (Georgian), Rätsel [neuter] (German), αίνιγμα (aínigma) [neuter] (Greek), γρίφος (grífos) [masculine] (Greek), ⁧חִידָה⁩ (ḥidá) [feminine] (Hebrew), पहेली (pahelī) [feminine] (Hindi), बुझोवल (bujhoval) [feminine] (Hindi), समस्या (samasyā) [feminine] (Hindi), रहस्य (rahasya) [masculine] (Hindi), राज़ (rāz) [masculine] (Hindi), राज (rāj) [masculine] (Hindi), भेद (bhed) [masculine] (Hindi), प्रहेलिका (prahelikā) [feminine] (Hindi), rejtély (Hungarian), talány (Hungarian), rejtvény (Hungarian), gáta (Icelandic), arvoitos (Ingrian), tomhas [masculine] (Irish), enigma [masculine] (Italian), indovinello [masculine] (Italian), kabbuni (Ivatan), なぞなぞ (nazonazo) (Japanese), 謎々 (nazonazo) (alt: なぞなぞ) (Japanese), bugtung (Kapampangan), жұмбақ (jūmbaq) (Kazakh), 수수께끼 (susukkekki) (Korean), табышмак (tabışmak) (Kyrgyz), endevinas (note: not to be confused with singular female 'fortune-teller') [feminine, plural] (Ladino), aenigma [neuter] (Latin), mīkla [feminine] (Latvian), mįslė [feminine] (Lithuanian), га́танка (gátanka) [feminine] (Macedonian), загатка (zagatka) [feminine] (Macedonian), teka-teki (Malay), panga (Maori), pere (Maori), adebina [feminine] (Mirandese), gåte [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), devinalha [feminine] (Occitan), enigma [masculine] (Occitan), charrada [feminine] (Occitan), ⁧معما⁩ (ma'mã) [feminine] (Pashto), ⁧چیستان⁩ (čistân) (Persian), ⁧معما⁩ (mo'ammâ) (Persian), zagadka [feminine] (Polish), enigma [masculine] (Portuguese), charada [feminine] (Portuguese), adivinha [feminine] (Portuguese), ghicitoare [feminine] (Romanian), cimilitură [feminine] (Romanian), зага́дка (zagádka) [feminine] (Russian), dubh-fhacal [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), за̏гоне̄тка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), енигма [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zȁgonētka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), enigma [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nimma [masculine] (Sicilian), nnivinagghia [feminine] (Sicilian), hádanka [feminine] (Slovak), uganka [feminine] (Slovene), enigma [masculine] (Spanish), acertijo [masculine] (Spanish), adivinanza (Spanish), quisicosa [feminine] (Spanish), fumbo (Swahili), gåta [common-gender] (Swedish), bugtong (Tagalog), чистон (čiston) (Tajik), муаммо (muammo) (Tajik), bulmaca (Turkish), esrar (Turkish), bilmece (Turkish), за́гадка (záhadka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ⁧پہیلی⁩ (pahelī) [feminine] (Urdu), ⁧معما⁩ (mu'ammā) [masculine] (Urdu), ⁧تېپىشماق⁩ (tëpishmaq) (Uyghur), topishmoq (Uzbek), câu đố (Vietnamese), advina [masculine] (Walloon), pos [masculine] (Welsh), untukan (Yakan)
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-noun-imxaaAGM Disambiguation of 'verbal puzzle': 73 27
  2. An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-noun-49ua8M22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: riddle canon, riddle me ree, riddle me this, riddler, riddle stick, riddle wrapped in an enigma, world riddle
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɪdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: riddles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪdəl Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|riddil}} Middle English riddil, {{m|enm|ridelle||sieve}} ridelle (“sieve”), {{inh|en|ang|hriddel||sieve}} Old English hriddel (“sieve”), {{m|ang|hridder}} hridder, {{m|ang|hrīder}} hrīder, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*hrīdrā}} Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*hrīdrą}} Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, {{m|gem-pro|*hrīdrǭ||sieve}} *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*hrid-||to shake}} Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*krey-}} Proto-Indo-European *krey-, {{cog|de|Reiter||sieve}} German Reiter (“sieve”), {{cog|non|hreinn||pure, clean}} Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), {{cog|goh|hreini||pure, clean}} Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), {{cog|got|𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃||clean, pure}} Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”), {{l|en|rinse}} rinse Head templates: {{en-noun}} riddle (plural riddles)
  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.
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-noun-en:sieve
  2. A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-noun-vMsAwxZt
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɪdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: riddles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪdəl Etymology: From Middle English riddel, ridel, redel, rudel, from Old French ridel ("a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”). More at writhe. Doublet of rideau. Etymology templates: {{dercat|en|gmw-pro|gem-pro}}, {{inh|en|enm|riddel}} Middle English riddel, {{m|enm|ridel}} ridel, {{m|enm|redel}} redel, {{m|enm|rudel}} rudel, {{der|en|fro|ridel}} Old French ridel, {{m|la|ridellus}} ridellus, {{gloss|"a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">ridellus</i>}} ("a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), {{m|fro|rider||to wrinkle}} rider (“to wrinkle”), {{der|en|goh|rīdan||to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle}} Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”), {{l|en|writhe}} writhe, {{m|en|rideau}} rideau Head templates: {{en-noun}} riddle (plural riddles)
  1. (obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-noun-qaA6GkFc
  2. (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-noun-ImGIABJG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹɪdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: riddles [present, singular, third-person], riddling [participle, present], riddled [participle, past], riddled [past]
Rhymes: -ɪdəl Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|redel}} Middle English redel, {{m|enm|redels}} redels, {{inh|en|ang|rǣdels}} Old English rǣdels, {{m|ang|rǣdelse|t=counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle}} rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*rādislī|t=counsel, conjecture}} Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”), {{af|en|rede|-le|t1=advice}} rede (“advice”) + -le, {{cog|ang|rǣdan||to read, advise, interpret}} Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
  1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-verb-c6DOH3dq
  2. (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question. Tags: transitive Translations (to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question): отгатвам (otgatvam) (Bulgarian), разгадавам (razgadavam) (Bulgarian), raden (Dutch), arvata (Finnish), resolver (Galician), enträtseln (German), λύνω (lýno) (Greek), ξεδιαλύνω (xedialýno) (Greek), εξηγώ (exigó) (Greek), risolvere (Italian), spiegare (Italian), ibugtungan (Kapampangan), разга́дывать (razgádyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), разгада́ть (razgadátʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-verb-SxdILPsW Disambiguation of 'to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹɪdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: riddles [present, singular, third-person], riddling [participle, present], riddled [participle, past], riddled [past]
Rhymes: -ɪdəl Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|riddil}} Middle English riddil, {{m|enm|ridelle||sieve}} ridelle (“sieve”), {{inh|en|ang|hriddel||sieve}} Old English hriddel (“sieve”), {{m|ang|hridder}} hridder, {{m|ang|hrīder}} hrīder, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*hrīdrā}} Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*hrīdrą}} Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, {{m|gem-pro|*hrīdrǭ||sieve}} *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*hrid-||to shake}} Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*krey-}} Proto-Indo-European *krey-, {{cog|de|Reiter||sieve}} German Reiter (“sieve”), {{cog|non|hreinn||pure, clean}} Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), {{cog|goh|hreini||pure, clean}} Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), {{cog|got|𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃||clean, pure}} Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”), {{l|en|rinse}} rinse Head templates: {{en-verb}} riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
  1. To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift. Translations (to put something through a riddle or sieve): пресявам (presjavam) (Bulgarian), prosít [perfective] (Czech), zeven (Dutch), siivilöidä (Finnish), cribler (French), κοσκινίζω (koskinízo) (Greek), rill (Irish), setacciare (Italian), przesiać [perfective] (Polish), просеивать (proseivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), cribar (Spanish), harnear [Chile] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-verb-KVNvG~1s Disambiguation of 'to put something through a riddle or sieve': 95 3 2
  2. To fill with holes like a riddle. Translations (to fill with holes like a riddle): надупчвам (nadupčvam) (Bulgarian), правя на решето (pravja na rešeto) (Bulgarian), proděravět [perfective] (Czech), doorzeven (Dutch), rei’ittää (Finnish), puhkoa (Finnish), cribler (French), durchlöchern (German), τρυπώ (trypó) (Greek), crivellare (Italian), forare (Italian), изрешечивать (izrešečivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), agujerear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-verb-Kmp1zpK4 Disambiguation of 'to fill with holes like a riddle': 3 82 15
  3. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade. Translations (to fill or spread throughout; to pervade): doordringen (Dutch), doorspekt (Dutch), vilistä (Finnish), cribler (French), cospargere (Italian), riempire (Italian), заполонять (zapolonjatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), plagar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-verb-ymBiMTAc Disambiguation of 'to fill or spread throughout; to pervade': 1 11 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹɪdəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: riddles [present, singular, third-person], riddling [participle, present], riddled [participle, past], riddled [past]
Rhymes: -ɪdəl Etymology: From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ridlen}} Middle English ridlen Head templates: {{en-verb}} riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To plait. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-riddle-en-verb-Qc2utMpj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Inflected forms

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      "word": "riddle canon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "riddle me ree"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "riddle me this"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "riddler"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "riddle stick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "riddle wrapped in an enigma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "world riddle"
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Middle English redel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "redels"
      },
      "expansion": "redels",
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        "2": "ang",
        "3": "rǣdels"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdels",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdelse",
        "t": "counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle"
      },
      "expansion": "rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*rādislī",
        "t": "counsel, conjecture"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "-le",
        "t1": "advice"
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      "expansion": "rede (“advice”) + -le",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to read, advise, interpret"
      },
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”).",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "riddle (plural riddles)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-noun-imxaaAGM",
      "links": [
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          "puzzle",
          "puzzle"
        ],
        [
          "mystery",
          "mystery"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "word": "conundrum"
        },
        {
          "word": "brain-teaser"
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        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "raaisel"
        },
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          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gjëegjëzë"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gjëagjëzë"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sitë"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "luḡz",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧لُغْز⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔuḥjiyya",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧أُحْجِيَّة⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "muʕḍila",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧مُعْضِلَة⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "arz",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "fɑzzūrɑ",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "Egyptian-Arabic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧فزّورة⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "haneluk",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "հանելուկ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "xãthor",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "সাঁথৰ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "tapmaca"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "müəmma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "zahádka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "зага́дка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "gátanka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "га́танка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zagádka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "зага́дка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "ca.ka:hta",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "စကားထာ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "endevinalla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "謎語"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "míyǔ",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "谜语"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hádanka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "gåde"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "raadsel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "enigmo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "mõistatus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "gáta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "arvoitus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "énigme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "devinette"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "devinaille"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "adiviñanza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cousiliña"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "adiviña"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gamocana",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "გამოცანა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Rätsel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aínigma",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "αίνιγμα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "grífos",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "γρίφος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "aínigma",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "αἴνιγμα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "grîphos",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "γρῖφος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "ḥidá",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧חִידָה⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "pahelī",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "पहेली"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bujhoval",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "बुझोवल"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "samasyā",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "समस्या"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "rahasya",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "रहस्य"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "rāz",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "राज़"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "rāj",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "राज"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bhed",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "भेद"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "prahelikā",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "प्रहेलिका"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "rejtély"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "talány"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "rejtvény"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "gáta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "arvoitos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tomhas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "indovinello"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ivv",
          "lang": "Ivatan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "kabbuni"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nazonazo",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "なぞなぞ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "alt": "なぞなぞ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nazonazo",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "謎々"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pam",
          "lang": "Kapampangan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "bugtung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "jūmbaq",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "жұмбақ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "susukkekki",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "수수께끼"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "tabışmak",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "табышмак"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "lad",
          "lang": "Ladino",
          "note": "not to be confused with singular female 'fortune-teller'",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "endevinas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "aenigma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mīkla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mįslė"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "gátanka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "га́танка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zagatka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "загатка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "teka-teki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "panga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "pere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "mwl",
          "lang": "Mirandese",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "adebina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gåte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "devinalha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "charrada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "ma'mã",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧معما⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "čistân",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "⁧چیستان⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mo'ammâ",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "⁧معما⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zagadka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "charada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "adivinha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ghicitoare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cimilitură"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zagádka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "зага́дка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dubh-fhacal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "за̏гоне̄тка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "енигма"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zȁgonētka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "nimma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "nnivinagghia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hádanka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "uganka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "acertijo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "adivinanza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "quisicosa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "fumbo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "gåta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "bugtong"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "čiston",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "чистон"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "muammo",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "муаммо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "bulmaca"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "esrar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "bilmece"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "záhadka",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "за́гадка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "pahelī",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧پہیلی⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "mu'ammā",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "⁧معما⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "tëpishmaq",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "⁧تېپىشماق⁩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "topishmoq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "câu đố"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "advina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 27",
          "code": "yka",
          "lang": "Yakan",
          "sense": "verbal puzzle",
          "word": "untukan"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-noun-49ua8M22",
      "links": [
        [
          "rhyme",
          "rhyme"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "redel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English redel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "redels"
      },
      "expansion": "redels",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "rǣdels"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdels",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdelse",
        "t": "counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle"
      },
      "expansion": "rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*rādislī",
        "t": "counsel, conjecture"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rede",
        "3": "-le",
        "t1": "advice"
      },
      "expansion": "rede (“advice”) + -le",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to read, advise, interpret"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”).",
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    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To speak ambiguously or enigmatically."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-verb-c6DOH3dq"
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Riddle me this.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-verb-SxdILPsW",
      "links": [
        [
          "solve",
          "solve"
        ],
        [
          "answer",
          "answer"
        ],
        [
          "explicate",
          "explicate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otgatvam",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "отгатвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "razgadavam",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "разгадавам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "raden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "arvata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "resolver"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "enträtseln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "lýno",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "λύνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "xedialýno",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "ξεδιαλύνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "exigó",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "εξηγώ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "risolvere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "spiegare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pam",
          "lang": "Kapampangan",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "word": "ibugtungan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "razgádyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "разга́дывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "razgadátʹ",
          "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "разгада́ть"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "riddil"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English riddil",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ridelle",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "ridelle (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hriddel",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hriddel (“sieve”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hridder"
      },
      "expansion": "hridder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hrīder"
      },
      "expansion": "hrīder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hrīdrā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hrīdrą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*hrīdrǭ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "*hrīdrǭ (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hrid-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to shake"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*krey-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *krey-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Reiter",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "German Reiter (“sieve”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "hreinn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "hreini",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "clean, pure"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rinse"
      },
      "expansion": "rinse",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (plural riddles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-noun-en:sieve",
      "links": [
        [
          "sieve",
          "sieve"
        ],
        [
          "mesh",
          "mesh"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:sieve"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-noun-vMsAwxZt",
      "links": [
        [
          "board",
          "board"
        ],
        [
          "pin",
          "pin"
        ],
        [
          "zigzag",
          "zigzag"
        ],
        [
          "straighten",
          "straighten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "riddil"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English riddil",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ridelle",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "ridelle (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hriddel",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hriddel (“sieve”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hridder"
      },
      "expansion": "hridder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hrīder"
      },
      "expansion": "hrīder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hrīdrā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hrīdrą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*hrīdrǭ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "*hrīdrǭ (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hrid-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to shake"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*krey-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *krey-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Reiter",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "German Reiter (“sieve”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "hreinn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "hreini",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "clean, pure"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rinse"
      },
      "expansion": "rinse",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "8 April 2014, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I revive a forsythia hedge? [print version 5 April 2014, p. G9]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), London",
          "text": "In its finest form – two years old or more – leaf mould can be riddled (sieved) and used, mixed 50/50 with sand, to make fine potting compost for seeds and cuttings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-verb-KVNvG~1s",
      "links": [
        [
          "riddle",
          "#Noun 2"
        ],
        [
          "sieve",
          "sieve#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sieve",
          "sieve#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "sift",
          "sift#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "presjavam",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "пресявам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "prosít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "zeven"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "siivilöidä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "cribler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "koskinízo",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "κοσκινίζω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "rill"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "setacciare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "przesiać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "proseivatʹ",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "просеивать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "word": "cribar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 3 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
          "tags": [
            "Chile"
          ],
          "word": "harnear"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        {
          "text": "The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "27 February 2019, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03",
          "text": "Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fill with holes like a riddle."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-verb-Kmp1zpK4",
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        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "hole",
          "hole"
        ],
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          "riddle",
          "#Noun 2"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nadupčvam",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "надупчвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pravja na rešeto",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "правя на решето"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "proděravět"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "doorzeven"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "rei’ittää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "puhkoa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "cribler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "durchlöchern"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "trypó",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "τρυπώ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "crivellare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "forare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izrešečivatʹ",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "изрешечивать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 82 15",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
          "word": "agujerear"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Your argument is riddled with errors.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fill or spread throughout; to pervade."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-verb-ymBiMTAc",
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        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ],
        [
          "throughout",
          "throughout"
        ],
        [
          "pervade",
          "pervade"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "doordringen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "doorspekt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "vilistä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "cribler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "cospargere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "riempire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zapolonjatʹ",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "заполонять"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 11 88",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
          "word": "plagar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
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  "etymology_number": 3,
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "gem-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "riddel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English riddel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ridel"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "rudel",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "ridel"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French ridel",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ridellus"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "\"a plaited stuff; curtain\"; > Medieval Latin <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">ridellus</i>"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "rider",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to wrinkle"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "rīdan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "writhe"
      },
      "expansion": "writhe",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rideau"
      },
      "expansion": "rideau",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A curtain; bedcurtain."
      ],
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        [
          "curtain",
          "curtain"
        ],
        [
          "bedcurtain",
          "bedcurtain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav",
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
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  ],
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}

{
  "etymology_number": 4,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ridlen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ridlen",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To plait."
      ],
      "id": "en-riddle-en-verb-Qc2utMpj",
      "links": [
        [
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          "plait"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To plait."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
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}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "riddle canon"
    },
    {
      "word": "riddle me ree"
    },
    {
      "word": "riddle me this"
    },
    {
      "word": "riddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "riddle stick"
    },
    {
      "word": "riddle wrapped in an enigma"
    },
    {
      "word": "world riddle"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "redel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English redel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "redels"
      },
      "expansion": "redels",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "rǣdels"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdels",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdelse",
        "t": "counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle"
      },
      "expansion": "rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*rādislī",
        "t": "counsel, conjecture"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "rede",
        "3": "-le",
        "t1": "advice"
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      "expansion": "rede (“advice”) + -le",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to read, advise, interpret"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
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      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (plural riddles)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature."
      ],
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        [
          "verbal",
          "verbal"
        ],
        [
          "puzzle",
          "puzzle"
        ],
        [
          "mystery",
          "mystery"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "intellectual",
          "intellectual"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "enigma"
        },
        {
          "word": "conundrum"
        },
        {
          "word": "brain-teaser"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rhyme",
          "rhyme"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
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        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "raaisel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gjëegjëzë"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gjëagjëzë"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sitë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "luḡz",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧لُغْز⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔuḥjiyya",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧أُحْجِيَّة⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "muʕḍila",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧مُعْضِلَة⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fɑzzūrɑ",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧فزّورة⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "haneluk",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "հանելուկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "xãthor",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "সাঁথৰ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "tapmaca"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "müəmma"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zahádka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зага́дка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gátanka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "га́танка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zagádka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зага́дка"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "ca.ka:hta",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "စကားထာ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "endevinalla"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "謎語"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "míyǔ",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "谜语"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hádanka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "gåde"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "raadsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "enigmo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "mõistatus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "gáta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "arvoitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "énigme"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "devinette"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "devinaille"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adiviñanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cousiliña"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adiviña"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gamocana",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "გამოცანა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Rätsel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aínigma",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "αίνιγμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "grífos",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "γρίφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "aínigma",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "αἴνιγμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "grîphos",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "γρῖφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ḥidá",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧חִידָה⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pahelī",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "पहेली"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bujhoval",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "बुझोवल"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "samasyā",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "समस्या"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "rahasya",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "रहस्य"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "rāz",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "राज़"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "rāj",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "राज"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bhed",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "भेद"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "prahelikā",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "प्रहेलिका"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "rejtély"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "talány"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "rejtvény"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "gáta"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "arvoitos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomhas"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "enigma"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "indovinello"
    },
    {
      "code": "ivv",
      "lang": "Ivatan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "kabbuni"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nazonazo",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "なぞなぞ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "なぞなぞ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nazonazo",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "謎々"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "bugtung"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "jūmbaq",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "жұмбақ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "susukkekki",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "수수께끼"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "tabışmak",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "табышмак"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "note": "not to be confused with singular female 'fortune-teller'",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "endevinas"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "aenigma"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mīkla"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mįslė"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gátanka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "га́танка"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zagatka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "загатка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "teka-teki"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "panga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "pere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mwl",
      "lang": "Mirandese",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adebina"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gåte"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "devinalha"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "enigma"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "charrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "ma'mã",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧معما⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "čistân",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "⁧چیستان⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mo'ammâ",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "⁧معما⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zagadka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "enigma"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "charada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adivinha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ghicitoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cimilitură"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zagádka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зага́дка"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dubh-fhacal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "за̏гоне̄тка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "енигма"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zȁgonētka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enigma"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nimma"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nnivinagghia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hádanka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "uganka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "enigma"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "acertijo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "adivinanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "quisicosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "fumbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "gåta"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "bugtong"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "čiston",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "чистон"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "muammo",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "муаммо"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "bulmaca"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "esrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "bilmece"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "záhadka",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "за́гадка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "pahelī",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧پہیلی⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "mu'ammā",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "⁧معما⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "tëpishmaq",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "⁧تېپىشماق⁩"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "topishmoq"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "câu đố"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "advina"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pos"
    },
    {
      "code": "yka",
      "lang": "Yakan",
      "sense": "verbal puzzle",
      "word": "untukan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "redel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English redel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "redels"
      },
      "expansion": "redels",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "rǣdels"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdels",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdelse",
        "t": "counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle"
      },
      "expansion": "rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*rādislī",
        "t": "counsel, conjecture"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rede",
        "3": "-le",
        "t1": "advice"
      },
      "expansion": "rede (“advice”) + -le",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "rǣdan",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to read, advise, interpret"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To speak ambiguously or enigmatically."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Riddle me this.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "solve",
          "solve"
        ],
        [
          "answer",
          "answer"
        ],
        [
          "explicate",
          "explicate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
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        "Southern-England"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otgatvam",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "отгатвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razgadavam",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "разгадавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "raden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "arvata"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "resolver"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "enträtseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "lýno",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "λύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "xedialýno",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "ξεδιαλύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exigó",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "εξηγώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "risolvere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "spiegare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pam",
      "lang": "Kapampangan",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "word": "ibugtungan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razgádyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "разга́дывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razgadátʹ",
      "sense": "to solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "разгада́ть"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "riddil"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English riddil",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "4": "",
        "5": "sieve"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "*hrīdrǭ (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
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        "4": "",
        "5": "to shake"
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*krey-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *krey-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Reiter",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "German Reiter (“sieve”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "hreinn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "hreini",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "clean, pure"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rinse"
      },
      "expansion": "rinse",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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        [
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          "sieve"
        ],
        [
          "mesh",
          "mesh"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it."
      ],
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        [
          "board",
          "board"
        ],
        [
          "pin",
          "pin"
        ],
        [
          "zigzag",
          "zigzag"
        ],
        [
          "straighten",
          "straighten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "riddil"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English riddil",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ridelle",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "ridelle (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hriddel",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hriddel (“sieve”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hridder"
      },
      "expansion": "hridder",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hrīder"
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hrīdrā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hrīdrą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*hrīdrǭ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "*hrīdrǭ (“sieve”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*hrid-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to shake"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*krey-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *krey-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Reiter",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sieve"
      },
      "expansion": "German Reiter (“sieve”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "hreinn",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "hreini",
        "3": "",
        "4": "pure, clean"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃",
        "3": "",
        "4": "clean, pure"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rinse"
      },
      "expansion": "rinse",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "8 April 2014, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I revive a forsythia hedge? [print version 5 April 2014, p. G9]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), London",
          "text": "In its finest form – two years old or more – leaf mould can be riddled (sieved) and used, mixed 50/50 with sand, to make fine potting compost for seeds and cuttings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "riddle",
          "#Noun 2"
        ],
        [
          "sieve",
          "sieve#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sieve",
          "sieve#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "sift",
          "sift#Verb"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "27 February 2019, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03",
          "text": "Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fill with holes like a riddle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "hole",
          "hole"
        ],
        [
          "riddle",
          "#Noun 2"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Your argument is riddled with errors.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fill or spread throughout; to pervade."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ],
        [
          "throughout",
          "throughout"
        ],
        [
          "pervade",
          "pervade"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "presjavam",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "пресявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "prosít"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "zeven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "siivilöidä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "cribler"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koskinízo",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "κοσκινίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "rill"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "setacciare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "przesiać"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "proseivatʹ",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "просеивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "word": "cribar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to put something through a riddle or sieve",
      "tags": [
        "Chile"
      ],
      "word": "harnear"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nadupčvam",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "надупчвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pravja na rešeto",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "правя на решето"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "proděravět"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "doorzeven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "rei’ittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "puhkoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "cribler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "durchlöchern"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "trypó",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "τρυπώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "crivellare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "forare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izrešečivatʹ",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "изрешечивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fill with holes like a riddle",
      "word": "agujerear"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "doordringen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "doorspekt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "vilistä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "cribler"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "cospargere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "riempire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zapolonjatʹ",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "заполонять"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fill or spread throughout; to pervade",
      "word": "plagar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

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  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "gem-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "riddel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English riddel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ridel"
      },
      "expansion": "ridel",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "redel"
      },
      "expansion": "redel",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "rudel"
      },
      "expansion": "rudel",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "ridel"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French ridel",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ridellus"
      },
      "expansion": "ridellus",
      "name": "m"
    },
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        "1": "\"a plaited stuff; curtain\"; > Medieval Latin <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">ridellus</i>"
      },
      "expansion": "(\"a plaited stuff; curtain\"; > Medieval Latin ridellus)",
      "name": "gloss"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "rider",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to wrinkle"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "rīdan",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "writhe"
      },
      "expansion": "writhe",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rideau"
      },
      "expansion": "rideau",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English riddel, ridel, redel, rudel, from Old French ridel (\"a plaited stuff; curtain\"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”). More at writhe. Doublet of rideau.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (plural riddles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A curtain; bedcurtain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "curtain",
          "curtain"
        ],
        [
          "bedcurtain",
          "bedcurtain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south."
      ],
      "qualifier": "religious",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 4,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ridlen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ridlen",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "riddles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riddled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To plait."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plait",
          "plait"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To plait."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪdəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-riddle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-riddle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-riddle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-riddle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-riddle.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "riddle"
}

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