Hagride

Quick meaning: Hagride is a verb meaning To harass or torment with dread or nightmares.

Meaning

To harass or torment with dread or nightmares.

Example Sentences

Ye Cardinal Wolves, tear up his Royal Bones, / Do, if you dare! keep your Prerogative / To hector Kingdoms, and to hag-ride Kings.

[He] complains of painful, ominous dreams, which are the bane, the imbitterers of nature’s second feast, hag-riding his imagination all night;

Surely the conception of a Ministry of Love, whose towering office hagrides the city because each citizen believes it has calculated for him the torture he would find most unbearable, corresponds to nothing in Communism and a great deal in the history of Christianity.

[I] beheld a posse of silent people escorting a cart, and on the cart, bound in a chair, her throat bandaged, and the bandage all bloody—horror!—the fisher-wife herself, who continued thenceforth to hag-ride my thoughts, and even to-day (as I recall the scene) darkens daylight.

Word Forms

• hagrides
• hagriding
• hagrode
• hagrid
• hagridden
• hag-ride

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include haunt, worry, terrorize, harry, hare, harass.

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