ridden
See also: -ridden
English
Etymology 1
See ride (verb)
Adjective
Usage notes
- Usually used as combining form: guilt-ridden, etc.
Derived terms
Terms derived from ridden
- angst-ridden
- bedridden
- book-ridden
- caste-ridden
- church-ridden
- cliché-ridden
- cloud-ridden
- conflict-ridden
- court-ridden
- crime-ridden
- crisis-ridden
- debt-ridden
- devil-ridden
- disease-ridden
- drudgery-ridden
- drug-ridden
- dust-ridden
- fever-ridden
- flea-ridden
- gout-ridden
- guilt-ridden
- hagridden
- louse-ridden
- memory-ridden
- money-ridden
- obstacle-ridden
- passion-ridden
- plague-ridden
- priest-ridden
- rat-ridden
- scandal-ridden
- scum-ridden
- sex-ridden
- sin-ridden
- sleaze-ridden
- sorrow-ridden
- storm-ridden
- strife-ridden
- violence-ridden
- war-ridden
- waste-ridden
- wormridden
Etymology 2
See rid
Verb
ridden
- (rare, nonstandard) past participle of rid
- 1752, Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany:
- As the New York traders to reach the Miami country passed through that of the Iroquois, the French devised a plan, which, if successful, would soon have ridden them of the English encroachments.
- 1752, Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany:
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