hagride
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The U.S.," he told the conferees, is "hagridden by fears: fear of war and unemployment, and fear of peace."
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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