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Meanings of hag-ridden in English

Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears.

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Examples for "tormented"
1
Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
The Irish Times
2
For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
The lord of the rings
3
Memories of the famine of the siege of '70 tormented the imagination.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
4
He had seen him being tormented by something ever since leaving England.
The Darkening Sea
5
The thought of Delia arrested-refusedbail-ina police cell-orin prison-tormented him.
Delia Blanchflower
1
The troika, on the other hand, has blundered and bumbled and blustered, hagridden by Dr Schaüble's Hoover complex, and is now unable to countenance change.
The Irish Times
Usage of hag-ridden in English
1
We thought him looking old and hag-ridden, but Doria seemed happy.
Jaffery
2
He was neither overlorded by sentiment nor hag-ridden by imagination.
The Human Drift
3
He looked hag-ridden as he went on without any preparation.
Robin
4
Remember-youare Rajputni: not to be hag-ridden by a mere chirágh and a thieving mugger.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
5
Our whole culture is still hag-ridden by military ideals.
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
6
He retched comfortably a couple of times and fell into a doze alternately hag-ridden and beatific.
The Centauri Device
7
The hag-ridden face of old Mald stared out.
The Forest Lovers
8
Then why did he allow himself to be hag-ridden to his ruin by such a creature?
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
9
He could stay in the lighted upper world if he wished, hag-ridden by an insane spirit.
Immortality Inc.
10
For he was hag-ridden by his unfaithfulness.
The Dark House
11
The existing condition in the hag-ridden Territory was directly chargeable to a measure whose authorship Douglas had boasted.
The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
12
Otherwise you would still be hag-ridden.
The Red Planet
13
If I don't settle the matter, Enoch is going to be hag-ridden by Minetta Lane all his life.
The Enchanted Canyon
14
He cannot sit beside my fire and talk quietly with me, he is too restless, hag-ridden by his constant fear.
The White Princess
15
It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.
Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
16
She had found a formula for the resolution of problems, both physical and mental, which had hag-ridden her for years.
Modern Religious Cults and Movements
Hag-ridden through the time