hagridden

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Tormented by witches, demons, or evil spirits.
    — Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.
  2. Tormented, harassed or worried.
    — So Sir Walter Scott, hag-ridden by debt, if he finished a novel in the morning began another in the afternoon, because, as he explained, it was less difficult to keep the machine running than to start it again after a rest.
  3. Overburdened by fear or dread.
    — a man hagridden by the future, haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth

词形变化

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词汇关系

相关词
hagride

词源

From hag + ridden.
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