Meaning of witch-ridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Thin and weak; (figuratively) thinly populated.

Examples

“Even the chickens on their roosts were witch-ridden,[…]”

“Mrs. Piper would be a much more convincing apparition if she could have come to us out of the blue, instead of trailing behind her a nebulous ancestry of magnetic somnambules, witch-ridden children, and ecstatic nuns.”

“Parliament in the seventeenth century an unsatisfactory barometer of public opinion because the franchise was irregularly distributed and the witch-ridden south-east over-represented.”

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