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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

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Etymology

Origin of -ridden

Special use of ridden

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Example Sentences

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ridden

I’ve ridden 22 airplanes so far in 2026, to the Midwest, East Coast and Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It reopened the following year as X2 and since then has been ridden by more than 16 million people, the park said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

I’ve ridden out the crashes, bought the dips, and every time I’ve been rewarded for holding on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

In line with the sometimes defiant sense of local "Ossie pride", Siegmund has often ridden the iconic local Simson bike, including to the polling booth Sunday in his hometown of Tangermuende.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

I wondered if the horses I’d ridden into this dawn were still caught in there like bugs, whinnying at the shift.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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