Definitions

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  • adjective tormented, harassed or worried
  • adjective overburdened by fear or dread

Etymologies

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hag +‎ ridden

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Examples

  • So this morning, hagridden with guilt, I've been getting stuck into my backlog of mail, which includes some lovely readers 'letters from various places.

    LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!! karenmiller 2008

  • She has not repeated her belief that we are cursed, but there is something about the darkness of her eyes and the pallor of her face that tells me she is hagridden.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • She has not repeated her belief that we are cursed, but there is something about the darkness of her eyes and the pallor of her face that tells me she is hagridden.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • She has not repeated her belief that we are cursed, but there is something about the darkness of her eyes and the pallor of her face that tells me she is hagridden.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • It is hagridden by uncertainties and apprehension.

    War And Recession 2008

  • Considering that his books are positively hagridden by his Message of watered-down Randism, it seems odd to accuse them of thematic vacuity; but the accusation holds just the same.

    The most inaccurate quiz ever superversive 2006

  • Our society is hagridden by fear of consequences without the actual risk being weighed.

    Relative risk | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • Only those who have been hagridden can know how tricky the slugs are, how constantly one must be on guard - or how deeply one must hate.

    The Sudden Curve: 2003

  • Only those who have been hagridden can know how tricky the slugs are, how constantly one must be on guard - or how deeply one must hate.

    The View Beyond Mars 2003

  • Only those who have been hagridden can know how tricky the slugs are, how constantly one must be on guard - or how deeply one must hate.

    The View Beyond Mars 2003

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