adjective

• Afflicted by nightmares or anxieties.

  ‘it once made parents and doctors hagridden’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Materialism traps us, unawares, in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers.’
  • ‘He had the appearance of a man hag-ridden by worry.’
  • ‘He is a man hag-ridden by the dissatisfactions of success, a person constitutionally incapable of compromise.’
  • ‘The Germans began the second half looking hag-ridden and were full of complaints to the referee.’
  • ‘A careworn boy hag-ridden by his need for perfection knew release.’

  Synonyms

  tormented, troubled, anguished, agonized, distressed, tortured, harrowed, racked with suffering, angst-ridden, ground down, worn out, despairing