RIDDLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riddled mean? 

• RIDDLED (adjective)
  The adjective RIDDLED has 2 senses:

1. (often followed by 'with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes

2. spread throughout

  Familiarity information: RIDDLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDDLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often followed by 'with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes

Context example:

the bullet-riddled target

Similar:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spread throughout

Context example:

cities riddled with corruption

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

The discovery about the caterpillar’s hunger for plastic was accidental, said Bertocchini, adding that the plastic bags containing the wax worms “became riddled with holes.”

(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)

Larsen B's disintegration was preceded by an atypical heatwave that riddled it with meltwater ponds, focusing researchers' attention on pond fracturing, also called hydrofracturing.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)