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hagride

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[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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Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact his Grimaldo is the most hagridden hero in opera.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their frenzied, hagridden Elektra, daughter of the slain Agamemnon and instigator of the ghastly revenge that overtakes his killers, demanded a singer of enormous endurance.

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

Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition.

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 Dornford Yates

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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