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hagride

American  
[hag-rahyd] / ˈhægˌraɪd /

verb (used with object)

hagrode, hagrid, hagridden, hagrid, hagriding
  1. to afflict with worry, dread, need, or the like; torment.


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Etymology

Origin of hagride

First recorded in 1655–65; hag 1 + ride

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But he was a devout Catholic, and Toledo's faded, invalid nobles, Quixotic bishops and hagridden monks were pigments for his palette.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the contrary, the generally permissive reception accorded last week's demonstrations suggests that the American electorate has matured considerably since the hagridden, self-doubting days of the early 1950s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into a subcommittee the bill had gone in pretty, thought Puerto Rican politicos, and had come out hagridden.

From Time Magazine Archive

What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth?

From Time Magazine Archive

That Lyveden of all men in the world should make such a costly mistake showed that his nerves were hagridden.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism—with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it—could never have reconciled itself to.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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