-ridden

¹ American  

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

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ridden ² American  

[rid-n] / ˈrɪd n /

verb

1. a past participle of ride.

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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

Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Bryson Saunders has ridden the roller coaster: He started buying dogecoin in 2021 because he kept hearing other recruits at his Tampa base bragging about how much money they had made with the cryptocurrency.

From The Wall Street Journal

Indian Railways lit a fire in my belly, and since then I’ve ridden more than 200 trains around the world, cutting through the Kunlun Mountains in the Tibetan Plateau, dodging banana leaves flapping through the windows on the Reunification Express in Vietnam and watching Norway’s midnight sun blaze on the Nordland line to Bodø.

From The Wall Street Journal

To this day, Michael Ross claims that at the time of the murder, he had an alibi: he had ridden his bike up to an estate near Kirkwall, where he bumped into two of his friends - a boy and a girl.

From BBC

I bought it at the wrong time, but anyone who has ridden the storm once isn’t worried about this downturn, and they’re buying furiously.

From MarketWatch

He’s been kicked out of a tiki bar, ridden on a city bus full of Santas that was pulled over by police, and late one night in 1995, he was strung up to a light pole on San Francisco’s Market Street.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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