Definition of "riddled"

riddled

/ˈɹɪdəld/

verb
1. simple past and past participle of riddle
adjective
comparative more riddled, superlative most riddled
1. Damaged throughout by holes.
2. Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
  1. Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
    Quotations
    Another anti-extremism organization, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by X on Thursday, calling the suit “riddled with legal deficiencies”.
    2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian‎
  2. Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
    Quotations
    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, page 235