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• past participle of ride.

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  ridden

  verb

  a past participle of ride.
• -ridden
  -ridden

  a combining form meaning “obsessed with,” “overwhelmed by” (torment-ridden ) or “full of,” “burdened with” (debt-ridden ).

ridden

¹ American  

[rid-n] / ˈrɪd n /

verb

1. a past participle of ride.

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-ridden ² American  

1. a combining form meaning “obsessed with,” “overwhelmed by” (torment-ridden ) or “full of,” “burdened with” (debt-ridden ).

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ridden British  

/ ˈrɪdən /

verb

1. the past participle of ride

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adjective

1. (in combination) afflicted, affected, or dominated by something specified

   damp-ridden

   disease-ridden

Other Word Forms

• unridden
  adjective
• well-ridden
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of -ridden

Special use of ridden

Example Sentences

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ridden

He says the quietness of the electric bikes combined with the anti-social way they are ridden is dangerous.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

So if my trainer has horses that need to be ridden for their own exercise, they’ll put me on one of those.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Innolight has ridden the AI tailwind as every AI cluster needs thousands—or even hundreds of thousands—of optical transceivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Bloom Energy has indeed ridden on the coattails of AI excitement and investors’ quests for companies positioned to benefit from powering data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Throughout the night they had ridden, as it seemed to Taran, down a long series of descending slopes.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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