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storm-ridden

storm-ridden adjective: blown by a storm or storms; stormy.

Adjective

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

  1. Blown by a storm or storms; stormy.
    • There were stories told of how on dark and storm-ridden nights some solitary traveller would find a strange companion walking by his side, a silent companion whose footsteps kept pace with his own, who, at the loneliest bend of the road, would suddenly turn and show him a dazzling vision as of the...1906, “The Feast of Candles”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 301, pages 578–579
    • The endless night crawled on, until at last the first streak of mournful gray showed very faintly in the storm-ridden sky […]1947, Jim Kjelgaard, “The Opening Gate”, in Buckskin Brigade, New York: Holiday House, page 154

Forms of storm-ridden

comparativemore storm-ridden
superlativemost storm-ridden

Origin of storm-ridden

From storm + ridden.

Questions about storm-ridden

What does storm-ridden mean?
Storm-ridden means blown by a storm or storms; stormy.
What part of speech is storm-ridden?
Storm-ridden is an adjective.

Words near storm-ridden in the dictionary

  1. storm-petrel
  2. storm-petrels
  3. storm-proof
  4. storm-racked
  5. storm-relative helicity
  6. storm-ridden
  7. storm-stayed
  8. storm-swept
  9. storm-trooper
  10. storm-troopers
  11. storm-voice

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