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abuse-ridden

abuse-ridden adjective: plagued by abuse.

Adjective

abuse-ridden (comparative more abuse-ridden, superlative most abuse-ridden)

  1. Plagued by abuse.
    • 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.2025 February 11, Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, “The Path to American Authoritarianism”, in Foreign Affairs, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2025

Forms of abuse-ridden

comparativemore abuse-ridden
superlativemost abuse-ridden

Origin of abuse-ridden

From abuse + -ridden.

Questions about abuse-ridden

What does abuse-ridden mean?
Abuse-ridden means plagued by abuse.
What part of speech is abuse-ridden?
Abuse-ridden is an adjective.

Words near abuse-ridden in the dictionary

  1. abuse excuses
  2. abuse of discretion
  3. abuse of distress
  4. abuse of notation
  5. abuse of process
  6. abuse-ridden
  7. abuseability
  8. abuseable
  9. abused
  10. abusedly
  11. abusedst

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