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See also: -ridden
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɹɪdən/, [ˈɹʷɪdn̩], [ˈɹʷɪd̚n̩], (with t-flapping) [ˈɹʷɪɾn̩]
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: written (with t-flapping)
- Rhymes: -ɪdən
Etymology 1
[edit]See ride (verb).
Verb
[edit]ridden
- past participle of ride
Adjective
[edit]ridden (comparative more ridden, superlative most ridden)
Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from ridden
- angst-ridden
- bedridden
- book-ridden
- bug-ridden
- caste-ridden
- church-ridden
- cliché-ridden
- cloud-ridden
- conflict-ridden
- court-ridden
- crime-ridden
- crisis-ridden
- debt-ridden
- devil-ridden
- disease-ridden
- drudgery-ridden
- drug-ridden
- dust-ridden
- fever-ridden
- flea-ridden
- gout-ridden
- guilt-ridden
- hagridden
- louse-ridden
- memory-ridden
- money-ridden
- obstacle-ridden
- passion-ridden
- plague-ridden
- priest-ridden
- rat-ridden
- scandal-ridden
- scum-ridden
- sex-ridden
- sin-ridden
- sleaze-ridden
- slum-ridden
- sorrow-ridden
- storm-ridden
- strife-ridden
- violence-ridden
- war-ridden
- waste-ridden
- witch-ridden
- wormridden
Etymology 2
[edit]See rid.
Verb
[edit]ridden
- (archaic, rare, now nonstandard) past participle of rid
- 1752, Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany:
- 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.
- 1752, Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany:
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English *ryddan, past participle of geryd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ridden
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of ridden (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ridden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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