What does dust-ridden mean?
Dust-ridden means Full of or covered with dust..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Full of or covered with dust..
As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality.
[…] carob-trees, dense and varnished of foliage […] met and mingled their branches together overhead, giving a vault of shadow from a midday sun, but now as the day drew near to its close, the level rays poured dazzling between the tree-trunks, turning the dust-ridden air into a mist of dusky gold.
A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath.
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Dust-ridden means Full of or covered with dust..
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As an author, you have not passed away “like a weaver’s shuttle,” and not one of your modest tomes is dust-ridden or smells of mortality.
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