hag-ridden
Britishadjective
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tormented or worried, as if by a witch
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facetious (of a man) harassed by women
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Meanwhile, the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon is hag-ridden by uncertainty about the terms on which Washington might agree to end the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Western Europe, and Japan too, are hag-ridden with fears that their hard-won recovery might be crushed between the Iron Curtain and a U.S. tariff wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Isabelle's hag-ridden father, Gregoire Asian can convey more with a lowered eyelid than most men do with a shrug of their shoulders.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet in many ways they are markedly saner, more unselfish, less hag-ridden than their elders.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ancients had been hag-ridden, so to speak, by the circle; and it appeared to them that such a perfectly formed curve was alone fitted for the celestial motions.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
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