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memory-ridden

memory-ridden adjective: full of memories; oppressed or plagued by memories.

Adjective

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

  1. Full of memories; oppressed or plagued by memories.
    • Solemn in the summer noon,
      Memory-ridden, hope-bereft,
      Ghost-like ’neath the midnight moon
      By some trailing shadow cleft.1866, Henry Glassford Bell, “Haddon Hall”, in Romances and Minor Poems, London: Macmillan, page 95
    • There was nothing to be afraid of that Ronny could see. And yet he was himself thrilled to an irrational memory-ridden fear of some cowardice somewhere afoot.1908, Iota (pseudonym of Kathleen Mannington Caffyn, The Magic of May, London: George Bell & Sons, Chapter 32, p. 309

Examples of memory-ridden in a sentence

  • Do I roll several occasions into one, or amplify one beyond reason? — this last being ever, I allow, the waiting pitfall of a chronicler too memory-ridden.1914, Henry James, chapter 6, in Notes of a Son and Brother, page 204:
  • Stevens’s portrayal of the taciturn, memory-ridden prison doctor is properly reticent, grave and sincere […]1939 October 19, Frank S. Nugent, “THE SCREEN: A Well-Played and Interestingly Told Drama Lurks Behind ‘Those High Grey Walls’ at...

Forms of memory-ridden

comparativemore memory-ridden
superlativemost memory-ridden

Origin of memory-ridden

From memory + ridden.

Questions about memory-ridden

What does memory-ridden mean?
Memory-ridden means full of memories; oppressed or plagued by memories.
How do you use memory-ridden in a sentence?
Do I roll several occasions into one, or amplify one beyond reason? — this last being ever, I allow, the waiting pitfall of a chronicler too memory-ridden.
What part of speech is memory-ridden?
Memory-ridden is an adjective.

Words near memory-ridden in the dictionary

  1. memory units
  2. memory-hole
  3. memory-holed
  4. memory-holes
  5. memory-holing
  6. memory-ridden
  7. memory-safe
  8. memory-unsafe
  9. memory-wipe
  10. memory-wiped
  11. memory-wipes

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