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ridden
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 Full of. 2 Oppressed by. v (past participle of ride English) Etymology 2 vb. (past participle of rid English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else; "he took the family for a drive in his new car" [syn: drive ] a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement [also: rode , ridden ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ridden \Rid"den\, p. p. of Ride.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from past participle of ride (q.v.). Sense evolution, via horses, is from "that which has been ridden upon, broken in" (1520s) to, in compounds, "oppressed, taken advantage of" (1650s).
Usage examples of ridden.
Something hits me in the ribs like a stone, and another on the right arm, which drops down just as I was aiming at a young fellow with light hair that had ridden pretty close up, under a myall tree.
I bring these gifts to honor you, and I bring as well your daughter, who has ridden beside me from St.
She had said that the man she loved was dead and that she would never love another, and yet had turned around and ridden off with the prince.
Some portion of the party has ridden on, and I doubt they will return before nightfall.
Ungrian flank that had ridden away into the hills thundered in to hit the Quman flank, which was now all strung out in pursuit of the retreating banners.
Both Villam and Judith have ridden east to rally their marchlanders against the Quman threat.
Ekke-hard himself, and then by a latecomer, a nobleman wearing the heavy armor of shock cavalry who had just ridden up.
Today they had all been distracted by the man who had ridden into their territory and had given them such a splendid chase.
She had ridden the horse only for pleasure and for the satisfaction of at last being faster than the other girls in the herd.
Everyone knew it was near impossible to tame a winged horse, and this one must surely hate the rider that had ridden it so hard and so far.
Lewen helped her, and then unsaddled Argent, who was looking very bad-tempered, not liking being ridden for such a long time on such stony roads.
The men have ridden out to find her and bring her back, and they will, ye ken they will.
Mother had ridden him up when she came -- the first horse she ever rode, she said.
We had often ridden over to help at the muster of the large cattle stations that were on the side of the range, and not more than twenty or thirty miles from us.
I believe he could jump -- jump anything he was ridden at, and very few horses could get the better of him for one mile or three.