-ridden
See also: ridden
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from bedridden.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ridden
- Figuratively construed as “repeatedly/perennially affected by” or “unable to escape from”.
- crime + -ridden → crime-ridden
- bug + -ridden → bug-ridden
- 2025 February 11, Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, “The Path to American Authoritarianism”, in Foreign Affairs[1], archived from the original on 12 February 2025:
- 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.