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plague-ridden

adj

Etymology

From plague + 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 plague-ridden — “plague + ridden”

Definitions

  1. Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place…

    Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community)

    • In the plague-ridden England of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, according to the historian Keith Thomas, it was widely believed that “the happy man would not get plague.”

  2. During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of…

    During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a time)

    • The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) chronicles gay life through the liberated 1960s; if White lives long enough, he hopes to complete the series with novels about the frenzied bathhouse ’70s and the plague-ridden ’80s.

  3. Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness. (of a person,…

    Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness. (of a person, animal, body or object)

    • There was a saintly minorite, one Fra Cristofero, who came to tend the plague-ridden, and who himself was miraculously preserved from the contagion.
    • In the Middle Ages war parties sometimes dropped plague-ridden corpses into their enemies’ village wells.
    • She picked up a letter from the table, handling it like a plague-ridden rag, and passed it to Hartley.

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