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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