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slumridden

slumridden is the alternative form of slum-ridden.

Meaning of slum-ridden

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 slumridden

comparativemore slumridden
superlativemost slumridden

Origin of slumridden

From slum + -ridden.

Questions about slumridden

What is slumridden the alternative form of?
Slumridden is the alternative form of slum-ridden.

Words near slumridden in the dictionary

  1. slumps
  2. slumps down
  3. slumpstone
  4. slumpstones
  5. slumpy
  6. slumridden
  7. slums
  8. slums it
  9. slumward
  10. slumwards
  11. Slune

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