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wormridden

wormridden adjective: full of or parasitized by worms.

Adjective

wormridden (comparative more wormridden, superlative most wormridden)

  1. Full of or parasitized by worms.
    • […] it has been again and again demonstrated that with a little care and slight expense an Apple orchard can be easily preserved from the attacks of caterpillars. But when a few keep these pests away by the use of simple preventives, their careless neighbors take no precautions and suffer their...1890 March 26, “Legislation Against the Gypsy Moth”, in Garden and Forest, page 150
    • The stone is new and white, the plans are penciled upon paper still unspoiled; but the spirit, the idea, the belief, the ideology, in which these buildings are being reared, are old, worm-ridden, petrified.1922, Frank Tannenbaum, Wall Shadows: A Study in American Prisons, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter IV, Part III, p. 144

Forms of wormridden

comparativemore wormridden
superlativemost wormridden
alternative formworm-ridden

Origin of wormridden

From worm + ridden.

Questions about wormridden

What does wormridden mean?
Wormridden means full of or parasitized by worms.
What part of speech is wormridden?
Wormridden is an adjective.

Words near wormridden in the dictionary

  1. wormlions
  2. wormly
  3. wormpick
  4. wormpicks
  5. wormproof
  6. wormridden
  7. wormroot
  8. worms
  9. worms and wheels
  10. worms in the apple
  11. worms on a string

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