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ridden herd on

ridden herd on is the past participle of ride herd on.

Meaning of ride herd on

Verb

ride herd on (third-person singular simple present rides herd on, present participle riding herd on, simple past rode herd on, past participle ridden herd on)

  1. (US, idiomatic, transitive) To supervise.
    • As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles.

Questions about ridden herd on

What is ridden herd on the past participle of?
Ridden herd on is the past participle of ride herd on.

Words near ridden herd on in the dictionary

  1. ridden fence
  2. ridden fences
  3. ridden for
  4. ridden hard
  5. ridden hard and put away wet
  6. ridden herd on
  7. ridden off into the sunset
  8. ridden on
  9. ridden on a rail
  10. ridden on the back of
  11. ridden one's bumper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ridden herd on (page history and authors); ride herd on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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