Meaning of -ridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Figuratively construed as “repeatedly/perennially affected by” or “unable to escape from”.

morpheme

Examples

“crime + -ridden → crime-ridden”

“bug + -ridden → bug-ridden”

“He could also fulfill his campaign promise to launch the “largest deportation operation in American history,” targeting millions of people in an abuse-ridden process that would inevitably lead to the mistaken detention of thousands of U.S. citizens.”

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