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Pierced with buckshot
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riddled
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Damaged throughout by holes. 2 Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation. 3 # {{non-gloss definition|Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition (term with English).}} 4 # (non-gloss definition: Taking a noun complement ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sth is riddled with bullets (= something has a lot of bullets in it ) ▪ The car was riddled with bullets. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her typing was slow and riddled with mistakes, the lay-out eccentric.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling .] To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many ...
Usage examples of riddled.
The supporting structure of the tunnel had already been weakened, and its walls were riddled with gaping holes.
Chasehope has riddled out the whole black business, and has those that will swear to the man.
They were riddled with paths that twisted and wound around deep stands of trees and bushes.
Either the entire forest was riddled with them, she decided, or it was just one particular flock that was keeping pace with Pukwudji and her.
But even heterosexual monogamy within marriage, long considered to be the benchmark of normalcy, can be riddled with problems.