Definition of "disease-ridden" [disease-ridden]

• Dominated by disease. (adjective)

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• "Many such areas are too remote, undeveloped or disease-ridden for the average tourist, precluding their use for photographic safaris."
• "The Virginians returned early in April, starving, ragged, and disease-ridden.17"
• "Like I would ever put disease-ridden poor people in the pages of this magazine. —"