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ridden

verbadjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɹɪd.n̩//
  • /[ˈɹʷɪ.dn̩]/
  • /[ˈɹʷɪ.d̚n̩]/

Full of.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ridepast participle of ride

Etymology

Morphologically ride + -en. See ride (verb).

adjective

  1. 1

    Full of.

  2. 2

    Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ridarchaicpast participle of rid

    As the New York traders to reach the Miami country passed through that of the Iroquois, the French devised a plan, which, if successful, would soon have ridden them of the English encroachments.

Etymology

Morphologically rid + -en. See rid.

Forms

comparative
more ridden
superlative
most ridden
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).