hagride
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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
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 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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