Meanings
comparative more storm-ridden · superlative most storm-ridden
- Blown by a storm or storms; stormy.
1963, Wallace Fowlie (translator), What I Believe by François Mauriac (1962), New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., Part IV, p. 47, When one has passed through the storm-ridden sea and reached the harbor, it is unsuitable to preach to those who are still struggling or who have just begun to struggle.
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There were stories told of how on dark and storm-ridden nights some solitary traveller would find a strange companion walking by his side, a silent companion whose footsteps kept pace with his own, who, at the loneliest bend of the road, would suddenly turn and show him a dazzling vision as of the very Face of God.
1906, “The Feast of Candles”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 301, pages 578–579The endless night crawled on, until at last the first streak of mournful gray showed very faintly in the storm-ridden sky […]
1947, Jim Kjelgaard, “The Opening Gate”, in Buckskin Brigade, New York: Holiday House, page 154
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