riddled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɪdəld/
Adjective
riddled (comparative more riddled, superlative most riddled)
- Damaged throughout by holes.
- Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
- Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
- The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
- Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
- 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 235:
- They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
- 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 235:
- Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
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