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drug-ridden

drug-ridden adjective: dominated or plagued by illicit drugs.

Adjective

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

  1. Dominated or plagued by illicit drugs.
    • The country's overcrowded and drug-ridden prisons will be reviewed by an independent board of inquiry.

Forms of drug-ridden

comparativemore drug-ridden
superlativemost drug-ridden

Origin of drug-ridden

From drug + -ridden.

Questions about drug-ridden

What does drug-ridden mean?
Drug-ridden means dominated or plagued by illicit drugs.
What part of speech is drug-ridden?
Drug-ridden is an adjective.

Words near drug-ridden in the dictionary

  1. drug-fiend
  2. drug-fiends
  3. drug-free
  4. drug-naive
  5. drug-naïve
  6. drug-ridden
  7. drug-runner
  8. drug-runners
  9. drugability
  10. drugable
  11. drugbuster

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