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

From Time Magazine Archive

He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Yeats was to discover that for him her mind, hagridden with fanatic factionalism, was as unlovable as a dog fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, O'Dwyer was hagridden with a $52 million transit operating deficit.

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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