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sorrow-ridden

adj

Etymology

From sorrow + 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 sorrow-ridden — “sorrow + ridden”

Definitions

  1. Filled with sorrow or sorrows.

    • Huddled in the stern of the boat she sat with her baby strained close to her bosom, and because of that little, tender, helpless thing she was happier tonight than she had been for many a sorrow-ridden day.
    • In two great palaces, from his father’s now middle-aged fellow-warriors king Nestor at Pylos and king Menelaus in Sparta, he hears accounts of the Greek armies’ gale-blown, sorrow-ridden return from the fall of Troy.

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