hagridden
English
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[edit]hagridden (comparative more hagridden, superlative most hagridden)
- Tormented by witches, demons, or evil spirits.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9:
- Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.
- Tormented, harassed or worried.
- 1906 March, Bradford Torrey, “Anatole France”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- So Sir Walter Scott, hag-ridden by debt, if he finished a novel in the morning began another in the afternoon, because, as he explained, it was less difficult to keep the machine running than to start it again after a rest.
- Overburdened by fear or dread.
- 1942, C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters:
- a man hagridden by the future, haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth