MEANING
Troubled or dominated by persistent anxiety.
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- anxiety-ridden nights
- anxiety-ridden character
- anxiety-ridden anticipation
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She spent three anxiety-ridden nights waiting for the result.
The anxiety-ridden character rehearsed every possible failure.
His confident appearance hid months of anxiety-ridden anticipation.
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- anxiety-ridden
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more anxiety-ridden; superlative most anxiety-ridden. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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