Riddle vs Lacerate - What's the difference?
riddle | lacerate |
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, / That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
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.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
To put something through a .
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To fill with holes like a .
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
To tear, rip or wound.
To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
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(botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
As a proper noun riddle
is .As a verb lacerate is
to tear, rip or wound.As an adjective lacerate is
(botany) jagged, as if torn or lacerated.riddle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* enigma, conundrum, brain-teaserDerived terms
* riddler * riddle stick * a riddle wrapped up in an enigmaVerb
(riddl)- Riddle me this'', meaning ''Answer the following question.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(riddl)- You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
- The machinegun fire began to riddle the poor Afghanis.
- Your argument is riddled with errors.
Anagrams
* (l)lacerate
English
Verb
(lacerat)citation, page= , passage=When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.}}
Adjective
(-)- The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.