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riddled

 adjective
     
rid‧dled
1

riddled with something

very full of something bad or unpleasant:
The whole house was riddled with damp.
By this time her body was riddled with cancer.
2

riddled with holes

full of small holes:
The wall of the fort was riddled with bullet holes.
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