ridden

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ridden.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

The general population of conflict ridden areas should, like all humans, be treated as innocent until proven guilty.

Examples16

Definitions2

Parts of speech1

Quick take

(in combination) Full of.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ridden gathered in one view.

adjective

(in combination) Full of.

adjective

(in combination) Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ridden.

adjective

(in combination) Full of.

adjective

(in combination) Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.

Example sentences

The general population of conflict ridden areas should, like all humans, be treated as innocent until proven guilty.

But pretty much all the software suffers from shortcuts one after another, ridden with bugs and backdoors.

Conversely, shouldn't states without the death penalty be positively crime ridden compared to the revenge-happy southern states?

More specifically, they'll gobble up the smaller debt-ridden players as they collapse, accumulating vast resources for pennies on the dollar.

You have a whole industry built on wearables and fitness with millions of miles run/ridden/hiked/whatevered...

Its not like war lords are tearing apart a civil war ridden country, with a history of European powers colonizing it.

It could be so good, but we accept bloated crappy bug ridden shitfests of OS and application software.

And you ignore that heavily taxes cities controlled by democrats are some of the most impoverished, crime ridden and unsuccessful in the US.

Or has it been over-ridden by some library you've loaded somewhere else?

I thought the same way until people came to me with virus-ridden Windows computers and I helped install Linux for them.

For now, Github is not ad-ridden as SourceForge is.

I've a problem with this ad-ridden source, for such a significant news.

Quote examples

All too much of academic writing is passive-voice-ridden "it is asserted" and "it is believed" type of writing, stuffed with scholarly citations, and utterly unreadable and useless.

This, together whith experience gained from many iterations, yields wheels which do not make the slightest sound when ridden for the first time and stay true even under heavy circumstances (I ride street/dirt on a 24" bmx now).

There needs to be something akin to Greenspun's Tenth Rule for anonymity: - "Any sufficiently ambitious anonymity system contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Tor." Why build hardware when a mature software equivalent of throwing your IP address across the world randomly already exists?

But if your logic is just about "oh this piece of crap of software is ridden with bugs we should just kill it", then be ready to kill the next one, and the next one, and the next one, till there is no software anymore out there.