different between raddled vs riddled

English

Adjective

raddled (comparative more raddled, superlative most raddled)

1. Worn-out and broken-down.
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse.

     In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:weak or Thesaurus:deteriorated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?ld/

Verb

riddled

1. simple past tense and past participle of riddle

Adjective

riddled (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.

      The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.

   2. Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
      • 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, ?ISBN, page 235:

        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.

Anagrams

• diddler