Meaning of wormridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Full of or parasitized by worms.

Examples

“[…] it has been again and again demonstrated that with a little care and slight expense an Apple orchard can be easily preserved from the attacks of caterpillars. But when a few keep⟳ these pests away by the use⟳ of simple preventives, their careless neighbors take⟳ no precautions and suffer⟳ their shade-trees and orchards to be worm-ridden.”

“The stone is new and white, the plans are penciled upon paper still unspoiled; but the spirit, the idea, the belief, the ideology, in which these buildings are being reared, are old, worm-ridden, petrified.”

“1959, Richard Harwood, “East Kentucky’s Mountain—No. 3.—Mountain Areas Make⟳ Progress⟳ in War on Sickness, Poverty, Dirt,” Louisville Times, 18 February, 1959, cited in U.S. Senate, 86th Congress, Session 1, Area Redevelopment Act. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, p. 650, The children inside are wormridden and indescribably filthy.”

“Through a window he glimpses the Shaws’ back yard: an apple tree dropping wormridden fruit, rampant weeds, an area fenced in with galvanized-iron sheets, wooden pallets, old tyres, where chickens scratch⟳ around and what looks uncommonly like⟳ a duiker snoozes in a corner.”

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