-ridden
Figuratively construed as “repeatedly/perennially affected by” or “unable to escape from”.
Suffix
- Figuratively construed as “repeatedly/perennially affected by” or “unable to escape from”.
- crime + -ridden → crime-ridden
- bug + -ridden → bug-ridden
- He could also fulfill his campaign promise to launch the “largest deportation operation in American history,” targeting millions of people in an abuse-ridden process that would inevitably lead to the mistaken detention...
Origin
Back-formation from bedridden.