ridden


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rid·den

 (rĭd′n)
v.
Past participle of ride.
adj.
Dominated, harassed, or obsessed by. Often used in combination: disease-ridden; grief-ridden.

ridden

(ˈrɪdən)
vb
the past participle of ride
adj
(in combination) afflicted, affected, or dominated by something specified: damp-ridden; disease-ridden.

rid•den

(ˈrɪd n)

v.
a pp. of ride.

-ridden

a combining form meaning “obsessed with,” “overwhelmed by” (torment-ridden) or “burdened with” (debt-ridden).
[see ridden]
Translations

ridden

[ˈrɪdn] PP of ride a horse ridden by → un caballo montado por ...

ridden

ptp of ride
adj angst-ridden → angsterfüllt; debt-ridden → hoch verschuldet; disease-ridden → von Krankheiten befallen; strife-ridden → zerstritten; ridden with crime → mit hoher Kriminalität; ridden with intolerance → ohne die leiseste Spur von Toleranz

ride

(raid) – past tense rode (roud) : past participle ridden (ˈridn) – verb
1. to travel or be carried (in a car, train etc or on a bicycle, horse etc). He rides to work every day on an old bicycle; The horsemen rode past.
2. to (be able to) ride on and control (a horse, bicycle etc). Can you ride a bicycle?
3. to take part (in a horse-race etc). He's riding in the first race.
4. to go out regularly on horseback (eg as a hobby). My daughter rides every Saturday morning.
noun
1. a journey on horseback, on a bicycle etc. He likes to go for a long ride on a Sunday afternoon.
2. a usually short period of riding on or in something. Can I have a ride on your bike?
ˈrider noun
ˈriding-school noun
a place where people are taught to ride horses.
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If the Prince had never ridden before in his life, I would trust him.
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Behind him, as he rode down the steep declivity that day, loomed a very different Torn from that which he had approached sixteen years before, when, as a little boy he had ridden through the darkening shadows of the night, perched upon a great horse behind the little old woman, whose metamorphosis to the little grim, gray, old man of Torn their advent to the castle had marked.
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The other children had ridden me about for nearly two hours, and then the boys thought it was their turn, and so it was, and I was quite agreeable.
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Sir Nigel and Ford had ridden on in advance, the knight upon his hackney, while his great war-horse trotted beside his squire.
Well, Master Gourval,' quoth Simon at last, `this is but a sorry welcome, seeing that we have ridden so far just to shake you by the hand.
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