Etymology

violence-ridden

Today it means: Dominated or plagued by violence. Full definition →

English violence ← Middle English violence ← Old French violence
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The story

  1. Latinviolēns /violentus
  2. Latinviolentia
  3. Old Frenchviolence
  4. Middle Englishviolence
  5. Englishviolence
  6. English todayviolence-ridden

From violence + -ridden.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.