ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Gout-ridden

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Gout-ridden is an adjective meaning Suffering from or affected by gout.

Meaning

Suffering from or affected by gout.

Example Sentences

Oh, how I have been deceived! For years I have worshiped that miserable gout-ridden professor.
Judith Herries, sister to Raiseley and first cousin to David, had, many years before, bewildered into matrimony the Honourable Ernest Bligh, who in his gout-ridden and exceedingly ill-tempered old age had become Lord Monyngham, then Viscount Rockage.
c. 1945-1950, Jack Spicer, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape” in Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (editors), My Vocabulary Did This to Me, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008, Gout-ridden angel, out of these terrors, Out of the mind’s infidelity and the heart’s horror Deliver my natural body.
1909, Maud Margaret Key Stawell (as “Mrs. Rodolph Stawell”) (translator), The Return of Louis XVIII by Gilbert Stenger, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Chapter 2, p. 67, Could anyone have imagined that the day would come when this prince, whose gout-ridden feet could only move in spasms, would in his turn be acclaimed in Paris as though he too were a conqueror?

Synonyms for gout-ridden

Depending on context, synonyms include gouty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include podagric, podagrical, rheumatized, diseased, painful, podagrous.

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