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waste-ridden

waste-ridden adjective: dominated or plagued by waste.

Adjective

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

  1. dominated or plagued by waste.
    • It was not very pleasant to walk along the refuse-strewn, waste-ridden beach.

Forms of waste-ridden

comparativemore waste-ridden
superlativemost waste-ridden

Origin of waste-ridden

From waste + -ridden.

Questions about waste-ridden

What does waste-ridden mean?
Waste-ridden means dominated or plagued by waste.
What part of speech is waste-ridden?
Waste-ridden is an adjective.

Words near waste-ridden in the dictionary

  1. waste water
  2. waste yute
  3. waste yutes
  4. waste-good
  5. waste-goods
  6. waste-ridden
  7. waste-time
  8. waste-water
  9. wasteable
  10. wastebasket
  11. wastebasket taxa

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