hag-ridden

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  1. Ridden by hags or witches, as a horse.
  2. Afflicted with nightmare. Cheyne.
  3. Entangled; involved. [Provincial English]

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  • Victorian fiction is full of characters who are hag-ridden by the desire to get inside that particular Ring which is, or was, called Society. —  RVABlogs
  • They look upon John McCain and Sarah Palin and see something out of hag-ridden history: the wizened old warrior, obsessed with finding enemies in every corner of the globe, marching in lockstep with the crackpot, mooseburger-chomping mother from the wilds of Alaska, rifle in one hand, Bible in the other, smiting caribou and conventional science as she goes. —  Latest Articles
  • They look on John McCain and Sarah Palin and see something out of hag-ridden history: the wizened old warrior, obsessed with finding enemies in every corner of the globe, marching in lockstep with the crackpot, mooseburger-chomping mother from the wilds of Alaska, rifle in one hand, Bible in the other, smiting caribou and conventional science as she goes. —  The Australian | News |
  • Our whole culture is still hag-ridden by military ideals. —  The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
  • Every one must have noticed how Russians are hag-ridden by an idea; but no one except —  Essays on Russian Novelists
 

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