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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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