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hagridden

adj

Etymology

From hag + ridden.

  1. derived from *Hreydʰ-✻ — “to ride”
  2. derived from *rīdaną✻ — “to ride”
  3. inherited from *rīdan✻
  4. inherited from rīdan
  5. inherited from riden
  6. suffixed as ridden — “ride + en”
  7. compounded as hagridden — “hag + ridden”

Definitions

  1. Tormented by witches, demons, or evil spirits.

    • Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.

  2. Tormented, harassed or worried.

    • So Sir Walter Scott, hag-ridden by debt, if he finished a novel in the morning began another in the afternoon, because, as he explained, it was less difficult to keep the machine running than to start it again after a rest.

  3. Overburdened by fear or dread.

    • a man hagridden by the future, haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA