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riffled

riffled is the simple past and past participle of riffle.

Meaning of riffle

Verb

riffle (third-person singular simple present riffles, present participle riffling, simple past and past participle riffled)

  1. (intransitive) To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
  2. (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
  3. (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
  4. (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
    • Near-synonym: rifle
    Synonyms:
    rifle
  5. (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
  6. (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.

See all 15 meanings of riffle

Forms of riffled

comparativemore riffled
superlativemost riffled

Words formed from riffled

Questions about riffled

What is riffled the simple past and past participle of?
Riffled is the simple past and past participle of riffle.

Words near riffled in the dictionary

  1. riffle bugs
  2. riffle shuffle
  3. riffle shuffled
  4. riffle shuffles
  5. riffle shuffling
  6. riffled
  7. riffler
  8. rifflers
  9. riffles
  10. riffling
  11. riffly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: riffled (page history and authors); riffle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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