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dust-ridden

dust-ridden adjective: full of or covered with dust.

Adjective

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

  1. Full of or covered with dust.
    • As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality.1881, James Thomas Fields, “To Leigh Hunt in Elysium”, in Underbrush, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 388
    • […] carob-trees, dense and varnished of foliage […] met and mingled their branches together overhead, giving a vault of shadow from a midday sun, but now as the day drew near to its close, the level rays poured dazzling between the tree-trunks, turning the dust-ridden air into a mist of dusky gold.1914, E. F. Benson, chapter 1, in Arundel, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Prologue, page 7

Forms of dust-ridden

comparativemore dust-ridden
superlativemost dust-ridden

Origin of dust-ridden

From dust + ridden.

Questions about dust-ridden

What does dust-ridden mean?
Dust-ridden means full of or covered with dust.
What part of speech is dust-ridden?
Dust-ridden is an adjective.

Words near dust-ridden in the dictionary

  1. Dust-Hole
  2. dust-off
  3. dust-offs
  4. dust-out
  5. dust-outs
  6. dust-ridden
  7. dust-tight
  8. dust-up
  9. dust-ups
  10. dustable
  11. dustbag

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