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slum-ridden

slum-ridden adjective: full of slums.

Adjective

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

  1. Full of slums.
    • Pearson's first idea, set out in 1839, was for a railway in a wide, covered-over cutting. It would connect a giant half-underground station at Farringdon with stations all over England. [...] The appeal of Farringdon was that this slum-ridden area was being redeveloped by Pearson's new employers...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22

Forms of slum-ridden

comparativemore slum-ridden
superlativemost slum-ridden
alternative formslumridden

Origin of slum-ridden

From slum + -ridden.

Questions about slum-ridden

What does slum-ridden mean?
Slum-ridden means full of slums.
What part of speech is slum-ridden?
Slum-ridden is an adjective.

Words near slum-ridden in the dictionary

  1. slum gun
  2. slum guns
  3. slum it
  4. slum-dweller
  5. slum-dwellers
  6. slum-ridden
  7. Slumbai
  8. Slumbay
  9. slumber
  10. slumber coach
  11. slumber coaches

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