Meaning of sorrow-ridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Filled with sorrow or sorrows.

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Examples

“[…] Miss⟳ Terry is as unconvincing as the least known member of her company. She is Kniertje, a fisherman’s widow, one who has already dearly paid the sea, but she does not for one brief instant suggest⟳ the sorrow-ridden fisherman’s widow; she appears to be only acting the part.”

“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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