Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
(often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes;
- Example: "a sweater riddled with moth holes"- Example: "cliffs riddled with caves"- Example: "the bullet-riddled target"2.
spread throughout;
- Example: "cities riddled with corruption"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled (r[i^]d"d'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling (r[i^]d"dl[i^]ng).]
1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to
pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or
gravel.
[1913 Webster]
2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many
holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
riddled
adj 1: (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous
perforations or holes; "a sweater riddled with moth
holes"; "cliffs riddled with caves"; "the bullet-riddled
target"
2: spread throughout; "cities riddled with corruption"